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 extent on either side of the broad channel, not more than knee or thigh deep, it is admirably a dapted to spear fishing ; atid consequently every bay and promontory is of the utmost consequence to a people so much dependant upon fisliing as well as hunting. Mandoon, Guildford and the adjacent country Wurerup, the gorge of the Swan. In this name are comprehended the sevei al estates of Colson, Belvoir, Baskervide, the Hermitage Wobourn Park, Br;ok Mount, and Henley Park ; as well as several lal is in the immediate vicinity. Gâlup, Monger's lake, To this place. Yeliowgonga removed his head quarters, aftei »he formation of the settlement* Ngangurgup, two hills on the coast to the North of the sailor's winding sheet, overlooking the villa grant of the Surveyor General Ngoogenbo"o, the large lake beyond Monger's Booyeeanup, Mount Brown; Clarence. See booyee Wadjemup, Rottenest. Ngooloormí.yup, Carnac Meeandip, Garden Island Ngowergup, in the gorge of the Canning, St. Ann's Hill Weebip, a high mountain beyond the Murray, called Mount William Moorda, the Blue Mountains. The term seems to indicate darkness uf colour. See Muorn The following distinctions in the description of j the country, will show that the¿e savages are not destitute of geological knowledge. It is highly ? probable that in their poetical compositions would ! be found allusions to the origin of the different ai-, visions mí ihe country here enumerated, and all ¡ lying to the Westward of the Blue mountains ; for a doubt can nuw be hardly entertained that the whole of Quartania is cf recent formation. Booyeembara, the division along the coast, consisting principally of lime-stone rock ; and generally bearing the xanthorea. and a few of that species uf the Eucalyptus, called white gum. See hooyee Gandoo, the division behind Booyeembara, and j running parallel. This is a sandy division, and. abounds with that species of the Encalyptus, i called Mahogany , ¡ Warget, the division behind Gandoo, and parallel ; j streching along the foot of the .uountains, like the other divisions from South to Nortli. This division abounds with clay, red loam, and al- ! luviai plains ; and, generally bears those species ? of the Eucalyptus, called the blue and flooded gums These divisions have no reference whatever to the territorcal boundaries of the different tribes. They seem to be purely geological. Mooro, the district of Yeliowgonga, it is hounded by the sea on the West ; by Melville wa ter and the Swan, on the South ; by Ellen's brook, j on the East ; and, by the Gyngoorda, on the j North, Gâlup is the capital. Beeloo, the district of'Monday, is bounded by the Canning. < n the South ; by Melville water, on the West ; by the Swan and Ellen's brook, on the North, the Eastern boundary of this district, I cannot accurately define. Several of the mountains are numbered in Monday's territories, and his head quarters are Wurerup. It should be remarked that the lower part of Monday's district, near where the two waters meet, seems to have been conquered and taken from his people at some former period ; and now forms a sort of neutral, or common ground, on which all the tribes to the North and South of the river occasionly meet. Beeliar, the district of Midjegoorong, is bounded by Melville water and the Canning, on the North ; by the mountains on the East ; by the sea on the West ; and by a I ne, due East, from Mangles bay, on the South. His head quarters are Mendyarrup, situated some where in Gaudoo. Here I ought to observe that Yagan is not a chief. But, being the son of Midjegoorong, he must be ranked among the princes of the country. He has greatly distinguished himself as a patriot and a warrior. He is in fact the Wallace of the age ; but in the general traits of his character, greatly resembles the Suwarrow of Scandinavia. The district of Banyowla, chief of the Murray tribe, comes next ; and is bounded on the West, by the sea ; on the East, by the mountains ; on the North by Beerliar ; and, on the South, by a line parallel to his Northern boundary. Banyowla possesses both banks of the Murray. The next chief is Dygan ; and the next to lum, Beenan ; whose districts probably extend as far a» Cape Leuwin. To the North of Yeliowgonga, is Haylo, chief of a tribe on the Boora, commonly called Lennard s brook. To the North and next to Waylo is Byer man, chief on the Bookal and the Mooler. Byer man is either the brother.or particular friend of Yeliowgonga. To the Eastwaid, and some where in the mountains, on the way to York, is a chief of the name of Dyoolon ; and it is not impossible but that Dyoolon may be the chief on the Avon, near Mount Mackie Still further to the East, is Wulbabong ; cliief of a district called Bargo. Of all the chiefe here mentioned, Yeliowgonga is the most distinguished for a humane, peaceable disposition. And yet he is a man of the most distinguished martial courage. When he is fully ruused no warrior, not even Yagan dare stand before him. To him the settlers are greatiy indebted tor the protection of their lives and property. DERB AL. This name comprehends the whole of the country from the Murray to the Gyngoorda. Though the settlement has since extended itself, this is the name of the country in which it was original iy formed. , Barnett. The name of the country to the Suitth of the Murray, including Geographe Bay. Knoobar. The country to the North of the Gyngoorda. Monkbeelvev. King George's Sound. Derbal Yaragan, the Swan River. This, exactly The name is applied to both branches of the river, including Melville water ; to its confluence with the ocean. The whole is called by way of eminence, Derbal Yaraman ; namely, the river of Derbal. The subordinate names of the different parts, are : DootanboiO, Melville Water Booneenboro, Perth Water Warndoolier, the Northern, or main branch of the river ; to which the name Swan River is now limited within the settlement j Mandoon, the Helena. Gynning, Ellen's brook ¡ Dyarlgarro, the Southern branch of the river, now known by the name of the Canning are subordinate names for particu ! . Wardoo lar parts of the Canning . Booragoon is the name tor the Southern branch of ¡ the Canning I Derbal Nara, the gulph of the Derbal. This comprehends Mangles Bay, Cockburn Sound, Owen's Anchorage, Gage3 Roads, and the whole space from the main to the islands, and from Collie Head to the Northern entrance beyond ! Rottenest. See Nara. See also Narai ! Meelon, the M array Gilba, the estuary of the Murray Kalgan, King River, King Geurge's Sound. This river flows through His Excellency's large estate at the Sound Gogulger, the Avon Boora, a stream issuing from the mountains some distance to the North of Ellen s brook, partially known in the settlement under the name of Len nard's brook Waylo, a lake into which the Boora discharges itself Gyngoorda, a small river, either issuing from, or taking its rise near the lake of Waylo. This is jrobably Bannister's river ; on the bar of which le and all his party were swamped ; and came )ack, with nothing to relate but the tale of their misfortune Bookal, a lake to the North and not far from the Gyngoorda Mooler, a lake or large sheet of water to the North and either adjoining the Bookal or not far distant Í am greatly puzzled about these two waters. I once took them for rivers. That such lakes or sheets of water do exist, is beyond all doubt, but where to place them, is the difficulty. The geographical ideas and terms of the Derbalese as well as their conceptions of distance and magnitude, are so different fYom ours, that the relative situations of places, are not easily ascertained. I have even some suspicion that our term river, doe3 not, on all occasions, convey the full import of their term Yaragan. Yardelgarro, a large sheet of water, to the North of the Mooler, and almost adjoining the coast Narnagootin, a river situated a considerable dis to the North beyond Gyngoorda Margyningara, a river of considerable magnitude, passing the settlement on the East and the North This river rises in the East apparently a little to the Southward of this part of the Settlement, in a country called Goodengora, under the name of the Wilgee. On entering the district of Bargo, the territory of Wulbabong, it as&uines the ' name of the Gatta. It then seems to follow a very circuitous course Northward through a considerable extent of county till it drops the name of the Gatta, and takes that of the Margyningara ; after whicfc, turning Westward, it falls into the ocean, some where between the Gyngoorda and the Narnagoot in; possibly not more than 150 or, at the most, 200 miles to the North of the settlement. The term Wilgee, which is the name of a red pigment with which they adorn themselves This is made from the ashes of burnt wood ; and the word seems to denote the colour. If so the banks of the Wilgee, and the adjacent country, will be found probably to resemble those of the Macquarrie, to the Westward of the Blue mountains, in Eastern Australia. At all events, a river in the situation and of the magnitude described, must one day be of great importance to the settlement ; and therefore no time should be lost in ascertaining its ex stance and its course. The passing of the Forgery Bill is a great triumph of humanity. It is one of those occurances which will be dwelt upon by the future historian as' characterising the improved intelligence of the present age. We have at length got rid of that stupid blunder in legislation, which looked npon death by choking as a panacea for the cure of every crime, and stuck to its stupid text in spite of compromises and ocquittals, and refusals to prosecute, and in short, every symptom of an ineffective, impcritivc and most disgraceful state of the law.-Mor Her. The Emperor Nicholas has just perpetrated one of the ir.ost arbitrary and ty ranical acts that the page of history has to record. He has removed 30,000 of the bravest of the Polish peasentry to the Steppes of Russia, and replaced them by Phillipons, the most brutal of the Russian tribes. The Ottoman empire was in a very tottering condition. The Egyptian army possessed both Damascus and Aleppo. The first vacant Cardinals hat will be given by the Pope, to the Honorable and Reverend Mr. Spencer, son of Earl Spencer and brother of Lord Althorp* This reverend divine, the individual wo se ropudiatien of the protestant faith made so much noise amongst us two years ago, has just been admitted to Priest's orders in Rome. Ohe London Courier states positive* Iy that the charter of the Bank of England will not be renewed. The Directors are advertising advances of money in loans on good security at 3 per cent. It is a pity that some means of negociat ing with this colony could not be established through the medium of "the Government or otherwise^ so that the colonists might nave the ^vantage of carrying on their impi-o-.^nontc at a less expensive rate. Hobart Town Edited, Printed, and Published by CHARLES MACFAULL, at the Gazette Office, Perth* Terms of Subscription. 10s. 6d. per Quarter, if paid in advance, or 12* if paid at the end of the Quarter. Single number, One Shilling. 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