120 THE ABORIGINAL NAMES OF RIVERS 
As to forms in War, with the ordinary variations, there is war 
or woor at Cape York for sea. At Brisbane, there is warril for 
river. There are wooree, sea, wurran, river, warren and waring, 
sea, in Victoria. Wirra is rain at Port Lincoln, in "Routh 
As to root forms represented by Mar: there is mornee rain, 
at Port Darwin; morala is sea at Mountmorris Bay; IM 
is a pool at Port Lincoln, South Australia ; also mirrara a swamp. 
Murrian, sea, is also 
So far the Suter Rae now for the gazetteers. Forms in 
Bar are Bara Creek, Baroo Creek, Barraba Oreek, Berico ‘ 
Forms in War: Warrah Creek, Warroo Creek, Warra Wanda 
Greek. Raibags Creek, Waramba River, Warlero Brook, Wari 
Creek Warradugga Creek, Warragamba River Warre River, 
— e-warrah Creek. To these may be added Warraburrabri Island, 
in the Clarence River, and Warautee or Wardong Island, in 
South Australia, as again illustrative of the fact that. roan 
for water are employed to denote islands. Forms in Mar 
Mara Creek, Marra Creek, Marara Cree k, Maraba Creek, Morupie 
Creek, Margalong River, Marool Creek, Maroombile Creek. 
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from other parts of the world. Following the order, there 
are forms in Bar to be looked for Beer, a well, is Hebrew, with 
bir, the Arabic form. Bior, Celtic, i is water. ere is also 
root form vahr, in Arabic, meaning lake or inland sea, Bahr Lut 
is Lot’s Lake, or the Dead Sea. Bahar-belame is the waterless 
river. Bahari designates a maritime district. Bahrein denotes 
also a group of islands in the Persian Gulf. Here we have @ 
cluster of illustrations of the point already noticed, that root-words 
r are often used to designate islands, h ds, 
meadows, or lands bordering on water. The form bar occurs, . 
meaning ret among the et sapere wats Among the 
into the Euphrates. But. 
Frat, River Frat. Pharpar, one of the cgivers of 
