Aboriginal words and names, Upper Clarence River dialect, collected by Thomas George Hewitt, ca. 1909; with introduction, notes and index by Robert L. Dawson, 1936 - Page 12

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*   Clarence River dialects in 1922 and 1935.

Mr Hewitt does not definitely state the localilty, or

localities, from whence his lists were obtained

but his son assures me that his father's informant

was one "Billy Buchan" an Aboriginal native

of Etonsville, which is up the river from Grafton,

and that therefore the great majority of the

words are almost certainly from the 

dialect of the Upper Clarence blacks. This

is further confirmed by the fact that most of

the place names given refer to stations and

other places up river, or inland, from Grafton.

A few words are definitely from the Richmond

river and other localities and these are specified

separately herein.

   I have not altered, or interfered with, Mr Hewitt's

spelling though occasionally tempted to do so

in order to make the correct pronunciation

(to my thinking) somewhat clearer. In some

cases Mr Hewitt himself has given altered

*Both publications are in the Mitchell Library.