170 



On the Tarra Dialect, 



Power Required to Perform Several of the Functions of 

 a small Motor, and Corresponding Cost of Water for 

 the Turbine, under the same conditions as to Pressure, fyc, 

 as those obtaining during the experiments. 





Foot Pounds of 



Cost of Water 





Work per Minute. 



per Hour. 







Pence. 



Supplying wind to a small organ of 6 







stops, using full organ 



372 



•41 



Driving an ordinary sewing-machine... 



416 



•46 



Turning a 16-in. grindstone for grind- 







ing carpenters' tools 



2000 



2-22 



Driving a foot-lathe, turning wood or 







metal, average work 



1350 



1-50 





Foot Pounds per 



Cost per 





Annum. 



Annum, 



Winding-up a large turret-clock, such 







as that at the Eichmond Town Hall 



8,000,000 



12/4 



Art. XII. — On the Tarra Dialect and the Languages of 

 Australia in connexion with those of the Mozambique 

 and Portuguese Africa. 



By Hyde Clarke, 



Vice-Pres. Anthropological Institute ; Vice-Pres. Statistical Society ; Vice- 

 Pres. Society of Arts ; Cor. Mem. American Oriental Society ; Mem. 

 German Oriental Society ; Hon. Mem. American Anthropological 

 Institute ; Hon. Mem. Byzantine Society of Constantinople ; Cor. Mem. 

 Ethnographic Society of Paris; Cor. Mem. Congress of Pre-historic 

 Archaeology; F. R. Soc. of Antiquaries of the North, of Copenhagen; 

 F. R. Historical Soc; F. R. Colonial Institute; Fellow Philological 

 Society. 



[Read November 13th, 1879.] 



In Mr. R. Brough Smyth's great work, The Aborigines- of 

 Australia (Melbourne, 1878), there will be found in the 

 second volume much matter on the languages of Australia. 

 Among these will be found a very long vocabulary of the 

 Yarra dialect, of the Yarra River, of Melbourne, composed 

 by Mr. John Green, Inspector of Aborigines. 



