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hirg. Now this "we can find elsewhere by looking for. 

 In the Liverpool dialect^ hir~il = hand, and at King 

 George's Sound, peer = nails. The commonest root, 

 = hand in the Australian dialects, is m-r, e. g. 



All this diflPers from the Port Essington terms. Elbow, 

 however, in the dialects there spoken, = waare ; o-nd fore- 

 arm = am-ma-iooor ; wier, too, = palm in Kowrarega. 



To complete the evidence for this latter word being the 

 same as the w-r of the other dialects and languages, it 

 would be necessary to shew, by examples, how the sounds 

 of m and w interchange ; and also to shew (by example 

 also) how the ideas of elbow, forearm, and hand do so. 

 But as the present remarks are made for the sake of illus- 

 trating a method, rather than establishing any particular 

 point, this is not necessary here ; a few instances taken 

 from the names of the parts of the human body being 

 sufficient to shew the general distribution of some of the 

 commoner Australian roots, and the more special fact of 

 their existence in the northern dialects : — 



English 

 Terrutong 



English 



hand 

 manawiye 



foot 



Moreton Is- tenang 

 land 



Peel River 

 Raffles Bay 



ma 



maneiya 



Moreton Bay chidna 



Karaula iinna 



Lake Macquarie thya 



