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craters witli volcanic phenomena. The word Fire, among the 

 aborigines, is given by Brough Smyth as Towera,^ which Mr. 

 Howitt spells Taura. Tlie word for Fire, most widely distributed 

 in Victoria, occurs as Wee, Wein, Ween, Whean, Weeing" and 

 Weenth, ' and even Wanyap/ This word is not used for any of 

 our extinct volcanoes, even when there are said to lie aboriginal 

 traditions of their activity. Toong,^ the word for smoke among 

 some of the western aborigines does not appear in connection with 

 the craters ; but Towera does occur in tlie native name Kutbun- 

 taura, on the Macallister River, above Glenfallock, which, 

 however, is not of volcanic origin. Boort, another term for 

 smoke, is a well-known place-name, but, so far as I know, is not 

 used for any volcanic crater. There are statements, however, 

 connecting the names of some craters with fire ; thus, Bonwick^ 

 says that Koroit, the aboriginal name of Tower Hill, one of the 

 most recent of Victorian volcanoes, means "fire." He gives no 

 authority for tliis meaning, and Brough Smyth's informants 

 variously give the name as Koroitch, a small fish,'' Korite, a 

 "large male kangaroo,"" or as "the male kangaroo."'' Koroit is 

 also iiiterpretated as nettles.^" The native name of Mount 

 Elephant, which also has traditions connecting it with eruptions, 

 is said by Brough Smyth to be Tirrenchillum or Tarrinallum, and 

 to mean a "liill of fire."" I was informed locally that the name 

 Terrinallum or Djerrinallum'-^ means the " tern," flocks of which 

 lived on the plains around the mountain ; and, as I have already 

 remarked, according to Dawson, the natives had no tradition of 

 any eruptions of Mount Elephant. Dawson's definite statement 

 that the aborigines of the Camperdown district connected Mount 

 Shadwell only, with volcanic action, seems to me to outweigh 



1 Smyth, Broug-h : " The Aborigines of Victoria," vol. i., London, 1878, p. 458. 



2 Snij'th . Oi). cit., vol. ii., pp. 12, 13, 83, 85, 86. 



3 Bunce, D.: "Language of the Aborigines of the Colony of Victoria," Geelong, 1859, 

 p. 17. 



i Smyth, Brough : " The Aborigines of Victoria," vol. ii , p. 10. 



5 Curr, E. M.: "The Australian Race," vol. iii., 1887, pp. 491-493. 



6 Bonwick, James; "Western Victoria," Geelong, 1858, p. 62. 



7 Smyth, Brough : "The Aborigines of Victoria," vol. ii., p. 186. 



8 Smyth: Op. cit., p. 213. 



9 Smyth: Op. cit., p. 210. 



10 Gregory, J. W.: " Teaching of Geography," 1902, p. 50. 



11 Smyth, Brough : "The Aborigines of Victoria," vol. ii., p. 214. 



12 Gregory . Op. cit., p. 49. 



