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hvvd's purse," {TAkti^ tmm f&StmSf)^ were 

 aljuiidaiit, and they are $een very &r ht tile 

 interior beyond tliis place. 

 Some caves have been lately found uot ihe 



the valuable discovery of fos^^il bonus in those 

 at \\\'lliri<i'ton Valley, l)y Major Mitchell and 

 otliersj limestone caverns have become one of 

 the colonial lions ; these, therefore, were pointed 

 mt U mt m ©"^aet^ of great tmnesity ; 1 ^nd 



thi^ however very small, and they did not 

 repay the troid>le of getting- into tliem. Tliey 

 I'csrnihled the small caves often seen in the 

 limestone q^uarries of Plymouth and Orestou, 



in Bei^pidbhr^, fmsf: whieli %mm mk^fA^ im- 

 sHs have h^en pxtxsared : stda^tes id mxuxm 



abounded, but neither fossils nor any red cal- 

 careous earth, in which those remains have 

 usually been found deposited. Among a quantity 



at Bt$t described to Jo^ as i^ts^, but 



were tlie breast bones and tibite of tlie erun, and 

 skulls, and other bones uf dogs, which no doubt 

 hud been placed there by the natives, for the 

 tlhi^fe rf tbe emu (here called Bereban by the 

 blacks) liai a hote at th^ w^^ia m& ^i^t^r 

 part ; this perforation is made, as many of them 



