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about it ; some old white-headed blacks know nothing about it, nor 
did their fathers, they say. On the same rock there exists some other 
curious marks, such as emus’ feet, snakes, boomerangs, and other 
things carved in the solid rock with singular precision of detail. On 
another part are three large figures roughly drawn in red. One 
appears to represent a man, but he is furnished with a large broad 
tail ; another is a nondescript monster with round body, round head, 
and four appendages like fins ; the third is a well-executed frog of 
enormous size, about S feet long, represented in the act of jumping. 
These pictures are outlined, and then filled in with shade lines crossing 
one another, and dividing the figures into small rhomboids. 
I am enabled, by the courtesy of my friend Mr. B. Etheridge, 
junr., the Palaeontologist of the Australian Museum, Sydney, to show 
a copy of the drawing found depicted on the Wollombi rock-shelters 
{Plate J). The group to the left represents probably a drawing of 
the sun, surrounded by hands and feet, the former being principally 
the right. One, nearly in the middle line, shows how the operation 
had been interrupted, and the hand replaced in a slightly different 
position. The upper right-haud figure represents a shield with an 
imperfect baud placed across the middle. The right-hand figure is 
that of a well-formed boomerang. The middle right-hand figure shows 
a hand probably intended to be holding a tomahawk. The lower right- 
hand figure shows a group of hands, possibly female. 
The following picture {Plate S) represents a group of native 
animals, drawn by a Coorong native, named Yertabrida Solomon ; the 
original is in the possession of the family of the late Bev. Geo. 
Taplin, at Point McLeay, on Lake Albert. 
SCULPTURE AND CARVINGS. 
I have before referred to the profile of the human head found by 
Sir George Grey cut out in the sandstone rock. This rock was so 
hard, says Sir George, Ci that to have removed such a large portion of 
it with no better tool than a knife and hatchet made of stone, such 
as the Australian natives generally possess, would have been a work 
of very great labour. The head was 2 feet in length and 1G inches 
in breadth in the broadest part {Plate P) ; the depth of the profile 
increased gradually from the edges, where it was nothing, to the centre 
w r here it was I V inches ; the ear was rather badly placed, but other- 
wise the whole of the work was good, and far superior to what a 
savage race could be supposed capable of executing. The only 
proof of antiquity that it bore about it was that all the edges of the 
cutting were rounded and perfectly smooth, much more so than they 
could have been from auy other cause than long exposure to 
atmospheric influences.” John Stockdale was the first European who 
drew attention to the sculptures in the neighbourhood of Botany Bay 
and Port Jackson. Governor Phillip, in his excursions in the vicinity 
of the abovenamed places, found the figures of animals, shields, 
weapons, and even men carved upon the rocks. Eish also were 
represented, and in one place a large lizard was sketched with 
tolerable accuracy. On the country surrounding Manly Beach they 
found various figures cut on the smooth surface of some large stones ; 
they consisted chiefly of representations of aborigines in different 
attitudes, of their canoes, several sorts of fish and animals. Captain 
