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PROCEEDINGS OF SECTION F. 
Alban’s road, about a mile southerly from Portion No. 8, of 40£ acres, 
in the parish of Lockyer, county of Northumberland. The cave is 
about 80 feet long, about 20 feet high at the extreme edge of the 
ledge which forms the roof, and about eight feet in depth from the edge 
of the floor, which consists of earth and is quite level, to the back 
wall, but the depth was originally much greater, ns portion of the 
floor bad recently to be cut away in forming the roadway. 
The cave is a favourite camping-place of white men, who have 
drawn many figures on the wall with charcoal ; but au old resident of 
the district informed me that the only figures in the cave when he 
first saw it were the three which I have described in this paper. 
From the appearance of these figures I think that the red 
colouring matter with which the outlines were drawn was in a liquid 
or semi-liquid condition, but that the remaining portions of the figures 
have been drawn in red and black with a solid substance. The figures 
consist of a kangaroo and two men, one of whom has the nose, eyes, 
and mouth drawn, and the other the eyes and mouth only. I found 
on the floor a couple of pieces of the shell of a species of fresh-water 
77m o, and some charred sticks, but the latter may have been brought 
there by white men. 
A local resident informed me that this cave was never known to 
be used as a camping-place by the blacks, who regarded the country 
lying between the above-mentioned portion and what is now the 
southern boundary of this parish as haunted, and, whilst they hurried 
through it in daylight with a speed induced by superstitious terror, 
nothing whatever would make them traverse it at night-time. This 
dread of something supernatural, and the fact that there is on the 
roof of the cave a stalactitie growth produced by a constant drip of 
water, may have been the reason why no more figures were drawn in 
this cave, although it is of such great size. 
Fig. 4. — This rock-shelter is amcre hollowin the Hawkeshury Sand- 
stone, with a floor sloping at such an angle that it is difficult to obtain 
a foothold in it. It is situated within Portion No. 40, of 40 acres, in 
the parish of Lockyer, county of Northumberland, facing N. 20° E., 
and is of the following dimensions: — Length, 26 feet; height, 10 feet; 
and depth, 13 feet. 
There are four right and three left hands stencilled in white, a 
figure drawn in white which resembles a kangaroo rat in the act of 
feeding, another marsupial in an unfinished condition also drawn in 
white, and the figure of a man as far as the waist drawn in red with the 
mouth in white ; this last drawing commences from a small rocky ledge, 
and may be intended to represent a man rising up from a pit. There 
is permanent water in Mogo Creek and a small tributary of it known as 
Feedy Gully, which flow’ through the grassy flat in front of the cave, 
which in former times must have been a veritable blackfel low’s paradise. 
Eig. 5. — This figure is drawn on the side of a small hollow in a 
boulder of Hawkeshury Sandstone lying on the slope of a bill, about 
300 yards westerly from the junction of the Mogo Creek with a small 
stream forming portion of the south-eastern boundary of Portion No. 14, 
of 40 acres, in the parish of Lockyer, county of Northumberland. The 
rock-shelter, which faces in a northerly direction, communicates with a 
cave on the southern side of the boulder by a small aperture about 18 
inches high, but there is no trace whatever of drawings in the latter. 
