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| | JacquesLeslie: Deep Water- Australia |
 | | On the northern side, where we stood, the lock is bounded by a broad, preposterous swath of imported, irrigated lawn; the growth is so luxuriant that trimming it requires a tractor-sized lawn mower with a driver perched atop it; he puttered by as we looked on. |
| | In mid-autumn, when I visited the Barmah Choke, the river’s flow should have been near its annual low, but of course it wasn’t: the water lapped at the Choke’s diminutive brim as it hurried down the channel to meet all its farming and municipal drinking requirements. |
| | “There’s the river in front of you,” Dole said, and I beheld a broad sward of carefully mown grass, and beyond it, the lock, the weir, and the flaccid Murray. |
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