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birg. 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. 



Moreton Bay murrali Corio 



K araula 



Sydney 



Mudje 



Wellington 



Liverpool 



far-onggnetok 



marra Jhongworong far'ohgnatu 



da-mora Murrumbidje mur-rugan 



rnara Molonglo mar-rowla 



mvrra Head of Bight merrer 



ta-mura Parnkalla marra 



All this differs from the Port Essington terms. Elbow, 

 however, in the dialects there spoken, = waare ; s^udi fore- 

 arm = am-ma-iooor ; icier, 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 in 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 

 Moreton Is- 

 land 



hand 

 manawiye 



Peel River 

 Raffles Bay 



ma 



maneiya 



foot Moreton Bay chidna 



tenang Karaula tinna 



Lake Macquaric tina 



