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We have thus five native names of places in the 

 immediate neighbourhood of Port Phillip, having 

 the termination ng^ and we may perhaps add another, 

 the Barwon being probably Barwong. At King 

 George's Sound in Western Australia, the names 

 end in up, and again to the eastward, near Gipps' 

 Land, the final letter is n. These observations may 

 probably assist in directing the attention of philolo- 

 gists to the subject of the distribution of the Austra- 

 lian dialects or languages. 



Ude Youang, or as Captain Flinders named it, 

 Station Peak, is a granite mass elevated 1370 feet 

 above the sea. At Geelong there is some con- 

 fusion in the formation. The rocks, however, that 

 prevail are trappean. 



In digging a well there, a fossil cowrie (^cyprcea 

 eximid) of an extinct species was once found at the 

 depth of sixty feet. Another specimen of the same 

 shell was dug up at Franklin village near Launceston, 

 from a hundred and forty feet below the surface of 

 the soil. Count Strzelecki gives a figure of it in his 

 interesting work. 



Mr. Ronald Gunn, in his observations on the 

 flora of Geelong, observes that out of a hundred 

 species of plants collected indiscriminately, sixty- 

 seven were also to be found in Tasmania, leaving only 

 thirty- three to indicate the peculiarities of the G eelong 

 vegetation. 



Some of the officers of the Beagle exhibited at 

 this place symptoms of being infected with the land- 



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