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The Monthly Meeting of the Society was held on Tuesday, 

 8th of April, 1884. The Vice-President, J. Bancroft, Esq., M.D., 

 in the chair. 



The following papers were read : — 



ON AN UNDE8CRIBED CLASS OF ROCK DRAWINGS OF 

 ABORIGINES IN QUEENSLAND, 



By Henry Tryon. 



Plates (XI— XIII). 



These rock drawings, or rather rock engravings to which my 

 attention has been called by Mr. Philp of Haddon, are 

 on the right bank of Pigeon Creek, along the bridle path leading 

 from Tenthill to Pilton, near where it emerges from the scrub to 

 ascend the main range. This track, to the Darling Downs, which 

 has only been known to the settlers for a ftw years, formerly 

 served as a means of retreat for the blacks, in escaping from raids 

 made upon them by the colonists ; and they could rest secure in the 

 mountain fastnesses through which it conducted, hunting mean- 

 while the game which to this day is here so abundant. The 

 neighbourhood knows the blacks no more, and an attentive 

 observer can meet but few indications of their former occupancy. 



An outcrop of the sandstone, which, of similar age to the 

 Hawkesbury series perhaps, largely contributes to form the Main 

 Range of Southern Queensland, has here given rise to a cave or 

 lather rock-shelter, and it is on its flat perpendicular wall that the 

 figures have been delineated. 



On my visit I found the face of the wall of this rock-shelter, 

 having an extension of 18 feet in one aspect and 6 feet in the 

 other, from the ground upwards to the height of a black of ordinary 

 stature, completely covered with various figures cut in the hard 



