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with Cockle Creek, in the Parish of Gordon. Fig. i6 repre- 

 sents a fish five feet nine inches long and about two feet nine 

 inches across the body at the widest part. This fish has 

 two eyes and three small dots about two feet three inches from 

 the point of the nose, which are perhaps intended to represent 

 gills. The tail is divided by two curved lines extending from the 

 back to the belly. Within the outline of the larger fish there is a 

 small one about eighteen inches long by eight and a half inches 

 across the body. There are six representations of boomerangs, the 

 most I have yet observed in so small a space, three of them being 

 within the outline of the large fish, two partly within and one out- 

 side of the said outline.^ 



Ten feet five inches farther to the right from the nose of the large 

 fish, on the vertical face of the same rock, are two small animals. 

 Fig. 17, which are probably intended to represent kangaroo rats, 

 judging by their size and general aspect." They are each about one 

 foot four inches in length, and are fairly well executed. 



The side of the rock on which the figures are cut faces north- 

 easterly, or towards Cowan Creek. These carvings are somewhat 

 uncommon on account of being executed on the face of a vertical 

 rock, such drawings being generally found on horizontal surfaces ; 

 they are, however, sometimes met with on rocks occupying different 

 slopes between the two positions mentioned. 



Fig. 18. This curious drawing is on the same flat rock as Fig. 26,. 

 and is probably intended to represent a fish, real or imaginary." It 

 is five feet three inches in length. 



Fig. 19. This figure of a wallaby is on the eastern continuation 

 of the same rock as Fig. 26, but is on the Government road separating 

 Portions Nos. 1139 and 11 40 before referred to. The length of the 

 wallaby from the tip of the nose to the end of the tail is four feet 

 five inches; it is in the attitude of jumping, and the eye is shown. 



1 Three feet seven inches to the left of the tail of the larger fish is the carving 

 of an iguana six feet long which is shown as Fig. 11, PL 3, of my paper on " The 

 Aboriginal Rock Pictures of Australia," Froc. Roy. Geog. Soc. Aust., Queens- 

 land, Vol. X, pp. 46-70. 



2 Kangaroo-rats are represented in Figs. 13 and 14, PI. 99, illustrating my paper 

 on this subject in the Report of the Australasian Association for the Advance- 

 ment of Science^ Vol. vi, pp. 624-637. 



3 For other examples of nondescript or monstrous creatures drawn by the 

 aborigines the reader is referred to Fig. 6, PI. 2, Proc. Roy. Geog. Soc. Atist.^ 

 Queensland, Vol. xi, pp. 86-105 ; Fig. 10, PL 9, Proc. Roy. Soc. Victoria, Vol 

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



