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the only instance of the employment of that colour in the 
cave. The other paintings represent a fish, a human figure, 
and two irregularly shaped objects, all drawn in white out- 
line. 
This cave is one of the largest—as well as being amongst 
those containing the greatest number of drawings—which I 
have visited. Toa spectator standing in front of it, with 
its immense array of upwards of a hundred objects painted 
in white on the dark coloured rock, the view is very imposing. 
The distance from the cave to the Macdonald river, in 
which the water is permanent, does not exceed half-a-mile. 
Cave 2.—This rock-shelter is situated at a place known 
as “The Gulf,” about 13 or 14 miles from Rylstone, in the 
parish of Growee, county of Phillip. It is within sight of 
the main road from Rylstone to Bylong, and on the western 
side of it. The cave consists of a large hollow in a huge 
isolated boulder of Hawkesbury sandstone about 60 feet in 
diameter, and 35 feet high. The cavity measures 374 feet 
in length, 13 feet in height, and 12 feet in depth from the 
entrance to the back wall, and faces N. 35° EK. The floor is 
composed of sandy soil near the front, but farther in the 
rock comes to the surface, and the cave bears evidence of 
having been occupied as a place of residence. Permanent 
water is obtainable in Gulf Creek which runs close by. 
If the observer faces the cave, a number of hands and two 
feet may be seen on the left—the latter being apparently 
those of a child, six or eight years old—all done in red stencil. 
Looking towards the right we see seven hands, one of them 
being shut, stencilled in white, and above them four more 
hands done in red stencil. Owing to the disintegration of 
the face of the rock on which the figures appear, a consider- 
able number of hands have become too indistinct to be 
copied. The lowest of the figures are about 8 feet from the 
floor, and the highest about 12, there being a ledge of rock 
running along the back wall of the cave, about 6 feet from 
the ground, upon which the operators probably stood when 
doing the work. 
This cave is chiefly remarkable for the two stencilled feet, 
which are about 12 feet from the surface of the ground. In 
order to stencil them at that height, it is likely that forked 
saplings were placed against the rock to support the weight 
of the child, who held its feet in position whilst the artist 
blew the colouring pigment around them. A theory pro- 
pounded by some of the white residents in that district is 
