Index. 
417 
Death, how introduced according to the 
New Zealand mythology, 255. 
Declination, 131. 208. 
Declination Magnetometer, 211. 
D'Entrecasteaux's list of native words, 
309. 
Depressions of land, 228. 
Derwent River, how applicable to irriga¬ 
tion, 107. 181 : navigation of the, 
181. 
Destruction of forests near Marlborough, 
319. 
Detorsion, plane of, 213. 
Dialects, four, of the native language of 
Tasmania, 309. 
Diamond bird, 54. 
Digging preferable to ploughing, 290: 
better adapted to steam, 297. 
Diomedea cauta , 400. 
Dipping needle, 221. 
Dogs, native, used for hunting, 115. 
Dotterel, banded, 57. 
- , hooded, 57. 
-, large-billed, 57. 
Dove’s, Mr., account of drift pumice, 399. 
340. 
Dove, Rev. J., on the condition of the 
Aborigines, 247 : list of Aboriginal 
words, 308. 
Drift pumice, 339, 340; found inland, 
342. 
Drift-wood, 227, 228. 
Enjinodes , n. g., 393. 
Duck, mountain, 57. 
-, musk, 57. 
Eagle-hawk, 52. 
12agle-hawk Neck, 283. 
Eagle, sea, 52. 
-, wedge-tailed, 52. 
-, white-headed, 52. 
Earth’s magnetism, measurement of, 
215. 
Eel, Tasmanian, 403. 
Ehrenberg’s discoveries of fossil Infu¬ 
soria , 150. 
Elder, Tasmanian, 39. 
Elevation of land, observations to be 
made upon, 228. 
Einlwinkments, material of, 102: dimen¬ 
sions, 162. 
Emu, 57. 
Emu-wren, 53. 
Enchanters of the Adelaide tribe, 121: 
not found among the Tasmanian na¬ 
tives, 252, 253. 
Engine, cost of a 10 -liorsc, in Tasmania, 
172 : of a 50-horse, 174. 
Entomyza albipcnnis, 392. 
Entozoa, nutrition of, 95. 
Epacruleoc of Tasmania produce esculent 
Ijerries, 40. 
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Equiieta, fossil, 194. 
Erebus, Mount, 246. 
Erratic blocks, 230. 
Esculent plants on the Tasmanian coasts, 
50: mountains, 51 : in the bush, 51. 
Etna, eruption of in 1669,325: in 1805, 
331: in 1811, 331 : in 1830, 330. 
Eudromius australis, 396. 
Euphcma aurantia , 306: splendida , 
388 : petropkila , 389. 
European weapons, influence of, on the 
wars of New Zealand, 345. 
Evaporation, extent of, in Tasmania, 92. 
Evil eye, 121. 
Ewing’s, Rev. T. J., list of the birds of 
Tasmania, 52. Observations on the 
migrating caterpillar, 72. 
Expenses of irrigation, 173. 175. 
Eyre's overland expedition from Ade¬ 
laide to Swan River in 1841, 153. 
Falcon, little, 52. 
-, peregrine, 52. 
Fan tail, 54. 
Fern of Tasmania, Pteris escidenta , 46, 
47. 
Ferns, fossil, 194. 
Fire, how preserved by Aborigines, 250. 
Firetail, 55. 
Fish, description of, found at Port Ar¬ 
thur, 59. 99. 
Flinders’ Bay, 282. 
Flinders’ Island, population of, 309. 
Flinders’ remarks on the attraction of 
the ship’s iron, 128. 
Floods, winter, 179. 
Flora of Port Phillip and Tasmania 
compared, 206. 
Flycatcher, satin, 54. 
Fly of Port Phillip, 319. 
Fogo, vast eruption of ashes from, 335. 
Forty-spot, 54. 
Fossils, directions for collecting, 227. 
Fossil fernsy 194: wood of Tasmania, 24: 
of Kerguelen’s Land, 28: embedded 
in basalt, 29. 
Frederick Henry Bay, 366. 
Freshes, use of artificial, for inland navi¬ 
gation in Russia, 183. 
Fruits fit for food found in Tasmania, 49. 
Fungus found on the myrtle, its escu¬ 
lent properties, 48. 
Future state, ideas of, among the natives, 
253. 
Gannet, 58. 
Gastrodia sesamoides 44. 
Gauss on magnetism, 132. 
Geelong, flora of, 203. 
Gcll, J. P., on the vocabulary of the 
Adelaide Tribe, 109. 
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