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Aboriginal Place names (continued)
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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