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d. The late Rev. J. E. Tenison Woods states that bones 

 of Dromornis australis have been found in vSouth 

 Australia, scraped and cut by aborigines. Unfor- 

 tunately, no figure of these bones has been pub- 

 lished, and the bones themselves cannot now be 

 traced. 



e The late C. S. Wilkinson records that (39) in 1864 

 he found at a spot 2 miles east of the Cape Otway 

 lighthouse, flint chips, and a sharpened stone toma- 

 hawk, and several bone needles. Mr. R. Ether idge, 

 jun., has reported (6) that in 1865-06 he found a 

 bone spike in beach material, formed of pebbles and 

 broken shells, and apparently passing under the sand 

 dunes. As the dunes near the scene of Mr. Wil- 

 kinson's discovery are 200 feet in height, it is as- 

 sumed that the deposit is of some antiquity. In 

 view, however, of the speed with which dunes come 

 and go, this evidence seems inconclusive. 



f. C. S. Wilkinson states (39) that "a stone hatchet has 



"been obtained on the Bodalla Estate, in the allu- 

 "vium, at a depth of 14 feet." In the absence of 

 details as to the rate at which this alluvium has 

 accumulated, this evidence is of small value. 



g. C. G. W. Officer describes the imprints of human 

 feet and buttocks in the consolidated calcareous dune 

 rock of Warrnambool. These are very possibly 

 genuine human impressions, though some doubt this. 

 In any case, they do not necessarily prove a high 

 geological antiquity for man in that region (23). 



h. Messrs. R. Etheridge. jun., T. W. Edgeworth David, 

 and J. W. Grimshaw have placed on record (8) the 

 finding of no less than four stone tomahawks at 

 Shea's Creek, near Botany Bay, in the Sydney Dis- 

 trict. 



In the same paper they describe and figure the 

 remains of a dugong, the bones of which show con- 

 clusive evidence of having been hacked by aborigines. 

 The top of the .skeleton of the dugong was about 5 

 feet below mean high tide, and the base of the 

 .skeleton about 7 feet below. The skeleton was cover- 

 ed partly by peat, partly by estuarine clays. It is 

 thought that sea level has risen by about 5 feet 

 since the aborigines feasted on the dugong. 



