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together, upon their ends in the ground, in a shape 
resembling the accompanying diagram, and pro- 
jecting four or five inches above the ground. 
The whole length of the place thus inclosed, by one 
which I examined, was eleven yards ; at the broad 
end it was two yards wide, at the narrow end one. 
The position of this singular looking place, was a 
clear space on the slope of a hill, the narrow end 
being the lowest, on in the direction of the river. 
Inside the line of stones, the ground was smoothed, 
and somewhat hollowed. The natives called it 
Mooyumbuck, and said it was a place for disen- 
chanting an individual afflicted with boils. In other 
places, large heaps of small loose stones are piled 
up like small haycocks, but for what purpose I 
could never understand. This is done by the young 
men, and has some connection probably with their 
ceremonies or amusements. 
In others, singular shaped spaces are inclosed, by 
serpentine trenches, a few inches deep, but for what 
purpose I know not, unless graves have formerly 
existed there. 
Another practice of the natives, when travelling 
from one place to another, is to put stones up in the 
trees they pass, at different heights from the ground, 
to indicate the height of the sun when they passed. 
Other natives following, are thus made aware of the 
hour of the day when their friends passed particular 
points. Captain Grey found the same custom in 
Western Australia; vol. i. p. 113, he says: — 
