BY FRITZ NOETLING, PH.D., ETC. II7 



more suggestive of a bundle of spears than these regular 

 thin columns of rock placed side by side. 



The lenn-parenna is the basalt, there cannot be the 

 slightest doubt, but I think it also includes the diabas. 

 Though not quite as regularly, diabas also breaks in 

 columnar pieces ; for instance the organ pipes (i) on 

 Mount Wellington, and it is therefore more than prob- 

 able that this rock was also called " spear stone." In 

 fact, it is very probable that the pieces of columnar 

 diabas found on the camping grounds, and used as 

 choppers, were designated lenn-parenna in distinction 

 of the real tronatta. 



The last word, noan-yale, unquestionably means 

 "white stone." I have above pointed out that yale= 

 gale=male means white, and as noan=loan=loin= 

 stone, the whole word must mean a " white stone." 

 Now, this is a word used by the Western and North- 

 western tribes, and the question arises which kind of 

 rock could they have designated as " w'hite stone " ? 

 There can be not the slightest doubt that this rock is 

 represented by the archaean schists. Archaean schists 

 of a white colour form the most conspicuous rock in 

 Western and North-Western Tasmania, and there is, 

 therefore, every probability that the " noan-yale " is re- 

 presented by this rock. 



In this paper the names of about i6 substances be- 

 longing to the mineral kingdom have been examined, 

 and we see that we can classify them under three head- 

 ings, viz. — 



(a) Minerals proper, including substances derived 



from the roasting of a mineral and the burn- 

 ing of wood ; 



(b) Rocks ; 



(c) Substances resulting from the disintegration 



or weathering of rocks. 



(i) The designation " organ pipes " for this occurrence of 

 columnar diabas is a curious modern parallel to the " spear 

 stone " of the Aborigines. The Tasmanian compared the rock 

 with a bundle of spears, the modern mind with a row of pipes 

 as usually exhibited in an organ. Supposing a' superior being 

 suddenly arrived at Hobart, and, pointing to Mount Wellington 

 in order to obtain the name of the rock forming the precipice, 

 received the rather startling answer — organ pipes. I leave it to 

 tbs reader to work out the logical conclusion for himself. 



