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birg. Now this we can find elsewhere by looking for. 

 In the Liverpool dialect, hir-il = hand, and at King 

 George's Sound, peer = nails. The commonest root, 

 = hand in the Australian dialects, is m-r, e. g. 



AH this differs from the Port Essington terms. Elbow, 

 however, in the dialects there spoken, = waare ; and /ore- 

 arm = am-ma-woor ; loier, too, = palm in Kowrarega. 



To complete the evidence for this latter word heiag the 

 same as the m-r of the other dialects and languages, it 

 would be necessary to shew, by examples, how the sounds 

 of m and w interchange ; and also to shew (by example 

 also) how the ideas of elbow, forearm, and hand do so. 

 But as the present remarks are made for the sake of iUus- 

 trating a method, rather than estabUshing any particular 

 point, this is not necessary here ; a few instances taken 

 from the names of the parts of the human body being 

 sufficient to shew the general distribution of some of the 

 commoner Australian roots, and the more special fact of 

 their existence in the northern dialects : — 



English 

 Terrutona 



English 

 Moreton Is- 

 land 



hand 

 manawiye 



foot 

 tenang 



Peel Eiver 

 Raffles Bav 



maneiya 



Moreton Bay chidria 



Karaula tinna 



Lake Macquaiie tina 



