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woman, the lower portion of which is somewhat weathered and one 
leg has entirely disappeared ; a figure of the sun ; a small fish ; a bird, 
which appears to be a member of the cormorant family, in the grasp 
of a mud-turtle ; and an elliptically shaped figure with numerous rays 
projecting, which may be inteuded for a porcupine rolled up, or 
possibly a moon in its third quarter ; a small figure like a snake in 
the act of striking ; one which bears a rude resemblance to a foot ; 
four which may be dilly-bags or the light bark shields of the natives ; 
one shaped like a waddy, except that the thick end is disproportionately 
wide ; a figure somewhat triangular in shape, but the third side is 
represented by eight short parallel strokes ; also a large figure to 
which I shall not attempt to give a name. 
There are also some figures drawn in white, consisting of a man 
with portions of a leg and of one arm cut off, and holding a boomerang 
in the other hand; six tribal marks, each 10 inches long, in one group; 
eight, each about four inches long, in a Becond group ; and two, about- 
four inches long, in a third group. There are also three figures 
stencilled in white — viz., a boomerang, a stone tomahawk with handle 
attached, and a human hand and portion of an arm. There arc also 
many slight traces of other figures left, but nothing definite can 
be made out from them. The first figure must have been drawn 
many years ago, for many are now about nine feet above the floor, 
but there is a vestige of a ledge or, perhaps, a former floor of the 
cave, about three feet above the present floor, still remaining, which, 
although not now sufficient to afford a foothold, must in former times 
have been sufficiently large to have been used as a platform by the 
dusky artists. 
Although the Hawkesbury Sandstone weathers very rapidly in 
comparison with other rocks, the process of disintegration in relation to 
our own computation of time is very slow, for in another cave I was 
shown by a Cedar Creek resident a name which had been written 
with a piece of charcoal sixteen years ago, according to the date 
inscribed under it, but it was still as legible as the day on which it was 
written. 
Fig. 2. — The cave in which these drawings are to he found is in the 
parish of Lockyer, county of Northumberland, about a mile westerly 
from Portion No. 3, of 40^ acres, of that parish, and about SO 
yards from the right bank of a rivulet locally known as Cutta Muttan, 
and about 150 feet above the level of that stream, in which there is 
permanent water. The cave is one of those hollows so numerous in 
rocks belonging to the Hawkesbury (Series, and its dimensions are as 
follow : — Height at the entrance, on an average, about six feet; length, 
33 feet; and depth, from the entrance to the back wall, about ten feet; 
the floor is level, and consists of earth somewhat black in colour, which 
appears to be due to a quantity of cinders being mixed with it. 
A quantity of cinders is also strewn over the floor, together with 
a few partly charred sticks, some small bones, and flakes of stone that 
have recently dropped from the roof, which is of a black colour, except 
Avhere it has failed to withstand the action of the weather. 
I was told by some of the local residents that this rock-shelter 
was the home of an aboriginal named Cutta Muttan (wdience is 
derived the name of the creek) up to the time of his death about 
twenty-five years ago. For all we know, the old chieftain, who 
