Box 4 Folder 5: New South Wales place names, 1899-1903 - Page 9

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9. Bogatějera, meaniong wild cherry trees, is the old aboriginal
name for the present site of Tumut, a town in N.S.W. The
name Tumut was originally "Dōōmōōl, and was applied
by the blacks to a large plain (now known as Tumut
plains) about 3 miles from the present town.
10. On the Upper Macleay  River in N.S.W. there is, I
believe, a place known Canoolapalamba  (Caw-oola-
-palamba) meaning "the place where the eagle drank". It
is interesting to compare this with a small snow lake
on the Munyang Mountains, not far from Mt Kosciusko,
known as Cootapalamba or Cāootapalamba.
11. Cocoparra is the name of a range of hills extending
from the Mirrool Creek towards the Lachlan River. This
word is apparently a corruption of Kookooburra or
Gogoburra, a "laughing jackass"
12. Mirrool  or Merool, a well known Creek, takes its  
name from a kind of clay the blacks painted themselves
with.
13. Colac Colac, in the north eastern district of Victoria, means
(I have been told) "very much snow" - see also Coolac,
near Melbourne, and Coolac near Cootamundra (N.S.W.)
but it is very doublful  if the latter are identical with
the former.
15. Murrumburrah, a town in N.S.W., is supposed to
be a corruption of "Murrimboolla" (compare Merimbula)
meaning "two peculiarly shaped waterholes". "Boolla"
signifies two.
14.Mt Dargals, an offshoot from the Snowy Mountains
{N.S.W.), takes its' name from a plant growing at its'  base
16. Mungalajenula, a name now almost forgotten, was
applied to a Home Station close to tumut (N.S.W.) in the
early days. It is the aboriginal name for some species of
lobster or crayfish found in an adjacent lagoon.  
       (Forwarded with letter of 6th  Jan 1900)    A.H. Chesterman
                                                                                            (Surveyor)
                                                                                              January 6th  1900