Box 4 Folder 5: New South Wales place names, 1899-1903 - Page 13

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were given a very long while ago  
The late Mr  Surveyor Maccabe
inserted the name of every little
feature on one of his Plans and
many years after I went to some
blacks camped in the locality
represented by the plan and
questioned them as to the names
and their answers were a  
verification of Mr [McCators]?
records in almost every instance.
Locality Mourquong or   Mount
Lookout on the Murray some
five miles above the junction
of the Darling.
I enclose herewith a short
vocabulary of Aboriginal words
chiefly "Wiradhury language"
where they are not I have marked
by letter K for "Kamillaroi
language"
As to the corruption of names
herein before attended to. When I
came to the Murray in January
1858 with Mr P. F. Adams
afterwards Surveyor-General, I  
was struck by hearing old residents
of the South Coast District who
had been long settled up country
as Mr John More of "Cumberoona"
calling localities now known by quasi native
names by names that were familiar to them
in days long gone by, as for instance
Cape (H)oew Island ( the H not
being sounded is very common)
                                                      now