Box 4 Folder 5: New South Wales place names, 1899-1903 - Page 27

The Society is indebted to the Surveyor General and
his officers [?] Thomas E J Halliday, T B N Sloman W. Wynten
John Allen, A.L. Stinson - Truscott, J.F. Campbell and J Anderson
District Surveyors for the following information

Native Names of Places and their Meanings

Colane	The native peach
Bobbarah	Singing
Bourbeen	The Stomach
Boothaguy (Creek)	To smell you
Bundilla	Meeting of waters
Bulga Bulga (The Bulgas)	many men
Buttabone or rather Budtherbone	The 'place of the Budther tree ("Erimophila Mitchelli")
Bullarora	Corpulent
Bungligumby	A broken limb
Bundif (more properly Boondie)	A war weapon
The carwell or Cowal	A shallow & small lake & lagoon or swamp
Coalbaggie (River)	A place to bathe
Cullengoin or Cullengowau	Blood-flowing An old battle ground
Dilly Dilly	Caves. there are caves in the Dilly Dilly sandstone hills and one of these I am told has near the entrance what appears to be a [?] carved pillar reaching from roof to floor
Dubbo	A covering for the head so called from the white clay that could here be obtained to cover the heads of mourners
Eenaweena	A little woman
Garlginda or Carlginda now altered to Gilgandra	A long waterhole so called from the large natural waterhole in the Castlereagh at this place
Gidgenbillah	Water with reeds. The Serembone Creek here is full of tall reeds.

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