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notes at folio 9 commencing " Wednesday, 27th September, 

 1815. Dy Beach, marked a Honey Suckle Tree near the 

 Beach. . . ." ] How could such a name originate if it 

 was not cut, hard by, in the rock ? How many men could 

 cut D V in the rock without breaking off the internal point 

 of the V which 200 years of weathering would read DY? 

 and DVisDe Vega. 



Within the lighthouse enclosure at South Head, at the 

 S.E. corner there are a number of rocks with hundreds of 

 notches where metal tools have been sharpened. At first 

 we naturally say that the convicts who built the old Mac- 

 quarie Tower made them when sharpening their picks ; on 

 second thoughts we reason that this could not be so because 

 the early English settlers were well acquainted with grind- 

 stones as we know them. This extensive sharpening of 

 tools indicates that elaborate carvings exist or existed in 

 the vicinity. The Rev. Mr. Styles told me of the figure of 

 a man with cocked hat and drawn sword, thus described to 

 him by one of the men who covered it up with concrete 

 when doing some modern work near there. 



There is an immense number of carvings extending at 

 least from Gosford to Botany Bay and back to Kuring-gai 

 Chase, and all that I have inspected show unmistakable 

 indications of metal tool work which cannot be reconciled 

 in any way with the opinion of the President of the Aus- 

 tralian Historical Society for this year, who says it is 

 convict work. 2 



1 This rock is now covered by a sand dune about 15 feet high. 



2 The following letter which appeared in the Sydney Morning Herald 

 of the 14th August, 1909, is here referred to. — (Editors): — ,f I have care- 

 fully read the construction that Mr. Lawrence Hargrave has placed on 

 the carvings on the rocks at Woollahra Point, and also Mr. Huntington's 

 letter (Herald of 5th August) in reply. I have waited hoping some other 

 writer, better able than myself, perhaps, to form an opinion, would follow 

 up the subject, but as no one has done so, might I ask you to give room 

 to the conclusion I have come to after inspecting the carvings, ringbolts, 

 and the site. 



"I differ from Mr. Hargrave, and think the work is of much more 

 recent date. First, I would like to say that I think the site is about one 



