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Fig. 30. — This immense fish is carved on the flat surface of a mass 
of sandstone bounding the shore of Botany Bay at La Pc rouse, about 
half-way between Frenchman’s Bay and Bare Island, within the 
reserve for defence purposes, parish of Botany. Its extreme length 
is 38 feet 8 inches, and the width of the body, not including the fins, 
is 14 feet. There is a huge dorsal fin upwards of 10 feet in length, 
and a pair of pectoral fins, one of which is notched at the end. Two 
slightly curved lines extend across the body, similar to those shown in 
Fig. 28, and both eyes are drawn on the same side of the head, a 
practice not unusual in native pictures of various animals. The 
surface of the rock is uneven, and the erosiou caused by water 
running along the depressions during wet weather has almost 
obliterated some of the outlines here and there. This carving is 
about 8 chains in a south-westerly direction from the La Perouse 
monument. 
Although this fish is 3 feet 10 inches shorter than one I have 
described elsewhere, it covers a greater area of the rock surface, owing 
to its immense width, than any fish yet recorded. See the fish 
represented iu Plate IX., Fig. 15, annexed to my paper on “Aboriginal 
Hock Paintings and Carvings in Xew South Wales,” published in Proc. 
Eoy. Soc. Vic., vol. vii. (n.s.), pp. 154-155. 
Fig. 31. — Within the outline of the fore part of the body of Fig. 30 
another fish has been carved upon the rock in the position shown in 
the plate. Its length is 14 feet 6 inches, and its greatest breadth 
5 feet 6 inches. An eye, which consists of a circular ring like those 
of Fig. 30, a pectoral, and a ventral fin are represented. Whether it 
was intended to convey the idea that this fish bad been eaten by the 
larger one, or whether it was carved in its present position owing to the 
suitability of the rock surface, it is difficult to form an opinion ; the 
latter is the most probable. 
Pig. 32. — This grotesque figure of a kaugaroo is carved on a 
detached boulder of 1 law kesburv Sandstone lying on the slope of a 
rocky hill within Portion No. 163, of 40 acres, parish of Cowan. The 
side of the rock containing the drawing slopes away from the spectator 
at an angle of about 15° from the perpendicular, and faces N. 70° W. 
It is about a chain from the left hank of Berowra Creek, in a small 
indentation in the shore line, called, from this native carving, Kangaroo 
Bay. The length of the animal from the nose to the end of the tail is 
8 feet 5 inches, and the body is ornamented with dots and linos cut 
into the rock. There are three bands across the hind leg, and five 
across the fore leg, two of which extend beyond the sides of the latter 
limb. The mouth, an eye, and both ears are tolerably well delineated, 
borne of the lines of this figure are cut into the rock about an inch and 
a -half, and are about two inches wide, being some of the deepest and 
widest grooving I have yet observed in native carvings. 
Fig. 33. — The well-drawn emu here represented is carved on a 
large flat rock about half-a-mile uortherly from the north-west corner 
of Portion No. 6, of 50 acres, parish of Wonga, county of Hunter. 
The bird pleasures 4 feet 10 inches from the bill to the tail, and 6 feet 
3 inches from the bill to the end of the foot. This carving has been 
described by me in mv paper on “ The Aboriginal Bock Pictures of 
Australia,” published in Proc. Boy. Geog. Soc. Aust. Q. Bch., vol. x., 
p. 66, plate iii., fig. 2. 
