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those remarkable white lines before referred to, one group 
containing three strokes, another five, and another eight. 
Between the last mentioned and the stencilled hand are 
seven white spots, with a short stroke downwards from the 
central one. 
Cave 5.—The low escarpment of sandstone containing 
this shelter is within Portion No. 9 of 47 acres, in the same 
parish and county as the last described. It is about 2} chains 
easterly from the new Bulga road, and about 12 chains from 
Darkey Creek, in which the water is permanent. The cave, 
which faces N. 40° E., is 37 feet long, 11 feet high, and 
varying from 18 to 26 feet from front to back. The floor 
consists partly of rock, but chiefly of hearth rubbish and soil, 
the roof bearing the stains of the smoke of numerous fires, 
showing that the place has been used as a camp by the 
aborigines. 
The drawings, which are all done in white stencil, consist 
of thirteen hands, two boomerangs, and an object 3 feet 
9 inches long, by 3 inches wide, evidently a native weapon 
either flat and sword-like, or cylindrical and solid, as a 
waddy. Although the rock is hard, durable and dry, and 
the cave faces the forenoon sun, most of these paintings are 
rather faint, indicating that they are of considerable age. 
Rock CARVINGS. 
It is not my intention on the present occasion to add a 
plate showing specimens of rock carvings, but will invite 
the reader to peruse a series of articles on this subject 
written by me during the past four or five years, which are 
illustrated by numerous plates. 
In some of the articles referred to, I gave an account of 
the discovery of rock carvings in the vicinity of Sydney 
in 1788, shortly after the colony of New South Wales was 
founded, and also mentioned other parts of Australia where 
similar carvings have been observed since that period. In 
other papers directions were given for copying these draw- 
ings from the rocks on which they occur, by means of. 
measurements and sketches made in a note-bock, with 
instructions for the preparation of plates for publication. 
In other communications I explained the manner in which 
carvings were cut upon the surface of the rocks by the 
native artists, and the possible purpose of the drawings. 
Several of my papers were largely occupied with illustrative 
