IN AUSTRALIA PHILOLOGICALLY EXAMINED, 127 
River Names in Yar. 
There are three more important roots for river names in Aus- 
tralia, to which attention will be shortly directed. There are 
: : gh te he 
yar, gong and kal. These will be taken in their order 0 
ing the usual method, we shall consult the vocabularies for proofs 
that the form is applied as a radical one, meaning water. 8, 
yuri, to pour, and yerro, water, occur at Lake Macquarie ; yarn, 
yarram, yerram, and yarran for river, sea, and spring, are in all 
parts of Victoria; yerlo is lake at Adelaide. Turning now to the 
gazetteers, the illustrations arenumerous. Thus, in Victoria there 
is the notable Yarra-yarra River,the meaning of which was ascer- 
tained at a very early date to be flowing-flowing. There is the 
Yarra rivulet, Yarrayne, the aboriginal name of the don 
River, Yarriambiac Creek, Yarrowee River, Yarrum Creek. Then 
Yerang Creek, Yering Lake. Turning to the Gazetteer of New 
arra-Yarra Creek, Yarren-Yarren Creek, Yarimgah Creek, Yar- 
dowindidja Creek. Here again we find a root-word for water 
applied to an island, as Yargai Island, in the Clarence River, and 
Yerunu, name of an island in South Australia. Besides all these, 
there are forms in which the yar is not at the beginning of the 
name. 
Turning now to other parts of the world, we find the forms 
“aro and Yero remounting to a venerable antiquity as very early 
Egyptian names applied to the Nile. There is also the Hebrew | 
yor, which means a river. In the British Islands a number of 
streams appear embodying this root, the Yarrow, the Yair, the Yar, 
names which so closely resemble those already adduced as existing in 
Victoria and New South Wales. 
River Names in Gong. 
of the waters. There are Burrangong, Cudgegong, Brongong, 
Kallobungung Creeks, Wagonga Inlet, Tragong Creek. In such 
enough—Bongongalong Creek, Gangangar Creek. Kangaloola 
Creek. Also the forms in y, Noeyango Lake, Yango, Yanko, 
Yengo, Yon . Now leaving the mountains aside, we 
have to see whether there are any root forms in gong or its equi- 
valents meaning water. The vocabularies supply us at once with 
