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Rh educated) that the natives of Australia are acquainted with the secrets of Freemasonry.

Mr. Samuel Bennett, in his valuable work on Australian Discovery and Colonization, gives some words of the Australian tongue which in sound and meaning are allied to words used by the Aryan race. They are as follows:—

Mr. Bennett says that "many other words might be added which afford traces of resemblance between the languages of the Australian Aboriginal tribes and the tongues spoken by the various Aryan nations. But whether