Box 4 Folder 3: New South Wales place names, 1899-1903 - Page 66

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Wardens Clerk

Peak Hill

Burrabadean          Big mountain

Bibberoo                 Boiling hill
                                site of a Thermal
                                Spring
Bogon                       grubs in the trees

Toagong                   Dried up lake

Nynang (Ck)             little (Ck)

Wangan                    where the crows come    }  akin to Wagga Wagga the speech of
                                 down from the mountain  }  the crow (a sound word)
Trajene                      where the gum leaves lie
                                  in the lagoon, flavouring &
                                  staining the water
Nambucca                 crooked water
Belubula                     in and out: either the
                                   meandering course of the
                                   stream, or the rapid rise
                                   and fall of flood waters

Cowra                         Rocks

Eugowra                     akin to Cowra, the force
                                    of the "eu" not known

Mulyan                         eagles                                                     J. Campey  Warden's Clerk
                                                                                                   A G Mitchell Pub School Master
                                                                                                       Peak Hill
                                                                                                                   18/1/1900