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to represent a young girl. I have arrived at this opinion by 

 comparing it with Fig. 23 on the same rock and with Fig. 36 in a 

 different locality. It may also be compared with Fig. 11 Plate 

 9, of my paper on ''Aboriginal Rock Paintings and Carvings in 

 N. S. Wales," published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society of 

 Victoria, vii, N. S., pp. 143-156. 



Fig. 26. This carving is delineated on a flat rock of Hawkesbury 

 sandstone sloping northerly, within Portion No. 1 139 of twenty-four 

 and one-half acres in the Parish of Manly Cove. This drawing is 

 apparently intended to represent the wombat, an Australian animal 

 with a very short tail and heavy body. Like many other native 

 drawings, the animal is shown much larger than the natural size. 

 From the point of the nose to the end of the tail it measures nine 

 feet eight inches, and across the body at the widest part it is four 

 feet. The plate shows the figure exactly as it appears upon the 

 rock, the usual careful measurements having been taken. Within 

 the outline of this carving is what appears to be a snake three feet 

 six inches long.^ 



Fig. 27. This carving, which probably represents a shark,- is on 

 the same rock as Fig. 26, and is eleven feet long. There are two 

 dorsal and one ventral fin and a fairly good tail. The nose of this 

 fish is very pointed, a peculiarity I have observed in other native 

 drawings. Near the mouth is a boomerang one foot eight inches 

 long, on the concave side of which is a small oval figure. Farther 

 on towards the tail of the fish are two other oval figures of larger 

 size, but I am at present unable to suggest what they are intended 

 to represent — they might conceivably be meant for eggs. 



Fig. 28. This figure is on the same rock as Fig. 61, and repre- 

 sents a man four feet four inches high. Contiguous to his right 

 hand are two oval figures about a foot long and nine inches across, 

 which may have been intended to represent shields, or possibly the 

 eggs of a bird. A similar object is shown in Fig. 6r. 



Fig. 29. This group of carvings is situated on the horizontal sur- 

 face of several large tabular masses of Hawkesbury sandstone, all in 



^ This carving is shown as Fig. 14, PL 3, in my paper on "The Aboriginal 

 Rock Pictures of Australia," in Proc. Roy, Geog. Soc. Aust., Qld. Bch., Vol. x, 

 pp. 46-70. 



-An immense tish carved on a rock by the aborigines is shown in Fig. 15, Pl^ 

 in my paper on "Aboriginal Rock Paintings and Carvings in N. S. Wales," 

 published in Froc. Roy. Soc. Victoria^ Vol. vii (N. S.), pp. 143-156. 



