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Its length is 6 feet, depth inwards 3 feet 9 inches, and height 

 3 feet -i inches. 



The paintings consist of six riglit hands, two of them being 

 children's ; three left hands ; and three right feet, two of which 

 are those of children. All these figures are done in white 

 stencilling. It may be stated that representations of feet are 

 uncommon, and are only met with occasionally. 



Plate VIII., Fig. 5. — This large rock shelter is situated in an 

 escarpment of sandstone rock, about three-quarters of a mile 

 southerly from Portion No. 4, of 40 acres, in the Parish of 

 AVilpinjong, County of Phillip. Its length is 79 feet, 25 feet deep 

 from the front inwards, 6 feet 6 inches high where the roof meets 

 the back wall, and increases in height outwards towards the front. 

 The cave faces the north-east. 



The drawings in this large cave are very numerous and comprise 

 various objects, but the Fig. shows one of the most interesting 

 groups, which is on the roof of the cave. On the left are an 

 iguana and a snake, each about 3 feet 3 inches long with their 

 heads in ojjposite directions. Above these are two drawings 

 which appear to have been intended to represent the sun, one 

 having eighteen rays and the other thirteen. The larger is 

 eighteen inches in diameter, and the smaller one foot. On the 

 right hand side of the Fig. is a circular object, six inches in 

 diameter, which may have been drawn to indicate the moon. On 

 the right of this figure are three crosses, which suggest -the sup- 

 position that they were intended for stars. "The Bushmen of 

 the Kalahari Desert in South Africa decorate the walls of their 

 dwellings with the representations of quadrupeds, tortoises, 

 lizards, snakes, fights, hunts, and the different heavenly bodies. 

 The drawings made inside caves are chiefly upon sandstone in 

 ochres of various colours." — Anth. Jour.,'*' X., 460. Extending 

 from the circular object towards the snake are fifteen tracks in 

 red, of a bird's foot, to another small cross. At the commence- 

 ment of these tracks, and above them, are three similar tracks 

 drawn in white colour, as if to distinguish them from the others. 

 A short distance below all the foregoing figures are fourteen 



* Throughout this paper I liave usel this contraction for the " Journal of the Anthropo- 

 logical lustitute of Great Britain and Ireland." 



