196 MATHEWS — AUSTRALIAN ROCK CARVIXGS. [May 7, 



of A^ictoria/ the Royal Geographical Society of Australia'^ and other 

 learned bodies. Since then I have continued my researches, and 

 have succeeded in discovering several other groups of native carv- 

 ings not hitherto recorded, a description of which I have thought 

 are worthy of being recorded. 



In the papers above referred to I have described the way in which 

 these carvings were executed by the native artists, their geographic 

 range, etc., so that it will not be necessary in the following pages 

 to again refer to these parts of the subject. The accompanying 

 plate shows much the largest and most varied as well as the most 

 valuable collection of rock carvings hitherto published. All the 

 figures are drawn to scale from careful measurements and sketches 

 taken by myself, and the position of each on the Government maps 

 is also stated in the descriptions, so that they can readily be found 

 by persons desirous of visiting them. As all the carvings are sit- 

 uated within New South Wales, it will not be necessary to add the 

 name of the colony in the description of each figure. 



Plate IV. Rock Carvings. 



Fig. T. This huge, roughly drawn figure of a man is carved on a 

 table of Hawkesbury sandstone, almost level with the surface of the 

 ground, on the old road from Peat's Ferry to Sydney, and is about 

 half a mile northerly from Vize Trigonometrical Station, Parish of 

 Cowan. The old dray track, now little used, passes over this figure, 

 which has caused some of the lines to become rather indistinct. 



From the feet to the top of the head measures ten feet eight 

 inches.^ Both eyes are shown and a diagonal line across the face. 

 There is a line across the body at the waist, across each arm near 

 the shoulder, across the left thigh, and the left ankle. An un- 

 finished line rises from the left thigh, outside of the figure. The 

 right hand and part of the left shoulder have been obliterated by 

 the traffic along the road referred to. 



Figs, 2, 3, 4 and 5. This group of carvings appears on a flat 



^Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, \n (N. S.), 143, 156. 



-^Froc. Roy. Geog. Soc. Aust. (Q.), x, 46-70; ibid, xi, 86-105. 



3 For other gigantic carvings of men, the reader is referred to thefollowing 

 plates in various papers written by me on this subject : Figs. I and 6, PI. 16, 

 Jour. Anthrop Inst., London, xxv, 145-163; Fig. 5, PI. 2, Proc. Roy. Geog. 

 Soc. Aust., Queensland, xi, 86-105 ; and Fig. 7, PL 9, Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, 

 vii (N. S.), 143-156. 



