Box 5 Folder 3: Victorian place names, 1899-1900 - Page 8

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[Page 8]

Lake Tyers
Name of Place Meaning or Reasson Why it was Given Name of Place
  		 Meaning or Reasson Why it was Given
      Bool Bool A Peninsula or long piece of land with water on both sides
Narung A deep hollow place Quaak Laughing jackass
Warnangatta

Lake Tyers

Much water

 Tilte Baaka Mouth of the Darling River
Dangandhur A narrow crossing place Wako Thunther[?] The Crow's fireplace[?]
Toorloo A blind arm Lake Tyers Nirnee The red Bluff
Looruk A place of Mosquitoes Bogong A place infested with flies
Narkabunda Sea. Back of the world      
Bullam wall

Two spears (Two Mountain

A Cave. Supposed to be the home of a spirit

Bruthen

Pronunced by black Brewdthan

 Referring to an evil spirit Brewin who is supposed to [have] exposed himsel there  
Wracktun ballook A olace of gum trees      
Täbara A place of cabbage trees      
Nihill A place red clay Metung A place of Ti trees
Marlow A place of White clay Jellawat A kind of snake
Dernam A place of box trees Nowa Nowa A Rocky Place
Baarook An island looking like a duck on water

Bemang

(Muneroo)

 A Plain
Tobaganggang A place where an Eagle's nest has been

Naliandhru

Kathung (Sea)

A butterfly

Water
Werang The place of Spoonbill duck Beddi Steep place
Brewitat   aandu A place of Snow (fresh snow)

Gnahamonga

(Hinmongu)[?]

 A place once visited by three persons
Brayakaloong The country to the westward belonging to men of the West Bupunderkee A place where a mens [??]up[?] boils

Krowathun

Koolung

 The country belonging to the men of the East called on the map Croajingalong Quangulmerung A place where honey is
      Galantapa A place where tree is cut down
      Thabbat (Tubbut) The liver of an animal
      Witgweri The wind whistling through She Oaks
      Ulifah[?] A point of land
           
           

  

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