ASTRONOMY OF THE AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES. 7 
B. xviii, 484-7.) The root is wide-spread, being found in the 
Persian, Zend, and Sanscrit of Asia; in the Gothic, with its 
numerous modern descendants in Europe ; in the Latin, with its 
numerous descendants ; in the Greek, and in the Armoric branch 
of the Celtic language. 
may be here noticed that the sibilant, the letter s, is almost 
wholly wanting in aboriginal dialects. Now, althoug it occurs in 
so many roots, the Sanscrit and the Greek supply forms which 
elt “i 
q, as also with the aspirate forms gh, &e., all belong to one class 
east of Tasmania. There is one word of special interest ; it is 
word Coolapatamba. This is the aboriginal name of Mount 
Cairneross, in New England. The meaning of it has been 
thatorin waa-pil, an eagle, and also war-pil an eagle. It be 
— of course, that there are other forms in gl, &e., 
ts of aquila, in whic 8 various forms 
i ce between English and Continental spelling. Thus 
ar Ualee of Bishop ee a obviously the same as the Wobjar 
Sir rge Grey. We have an 7 in the one which is not in the 
The word Woljar is not unlike Vulture, and it means @ 
ture. As to the other forms, they arise from the well-known 
Variations which characterize the labials: p aspirated becomes 
