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represented a large turtle. A. representation fre(iuently met 

 with is a snake about to enter a natural crack. On this plate 

 we see a snake going towards what seems to be intended for a 

 crack. The design near the bottom represents a much enlarged 

 centipede, and so probably is the one above it, but it is more 

 clumsily executed. Besides a kangaroo and two bird-tracks, 

 easily recognisable as such, the other designs are abstruse ; but a 

 certain elegance in their execution is very striking. Here the 

 circle within circles is also met with. 



Plate 10, h. 



These marks were found on the flat face of sandstone at Camp 

 12 on the western side of the CoflSn-shaped Mountain (a sand- 

 stone ridge, so named on account of the resemblance to a coffin 

 from the distance), near the base of a narrow precipitous valley, 

 and al)out a, chain be^ow a small water reservoir under an over- 

 hanging rock. 



The marks are very regularly drawn, particularly the largest 

 of them, and in my opinion were put on the rock to mark the 

 place of the water. 



The barred oval mark on Plate 1. is most likel)' intended to 

 convey a similar meaning. 



Vlate 11. 



The drawings represejited on tliis plate are placed in the same 

 relative position as they were found, and reduced to about one- 

 twelfth of the original size. 



The uppermost, no doubt, represents a huge snake, and the one 

 just below to the left is a splendid representation of an iguana. 

 Neither have a head, which I notice in most cases is omitted or 

 hidden when reptiles are represented. The two imperfect human 

 foot-prints have undoubtedly been produced by placing the foot, 

 previously smeared with the pigment, against the rock-face ; it 

 will be noticed that they are both prints of the same foot, namely, 

 the left. Two other designs are easily recognisable as represent- 

 ing baskets ; both are excellent drawings, particularly the one to 

 the left, which is beyond dispute the best repre.sentatioii of an 

 object found amongst the whole series reproduced. Whether the 

 perspective of this drawing is produced intentionally, or is merely 

 the result of an accident, cannot be decided positively, but 1 in- 

 cline to the last supposition. Perspective, although sometimes 

 applied without any particular knowledge of the rules, is generally 

 the stumbling-block of amateur artists ; the want of a correct 

 application, and often a total absence of it, characterises their 

 attempts at reproduction. Even such an advanced nation as the 

 Chinese were entirely ignorant of perspective, until photograpliy 

 made them cognizant of it, and they now apply it at times, though 



