The Victorian naturalist . s of thisperiod, and if he did acquire anyknowledge of the natives he did notrecord it beyond stating that he knewsomewhat of their language. He didnot thus make mention of what Isuspect was the reason for the im-portance of the Gnareeb-Gnareeb. Aswell as fine lands well provided withwater and edible roots and game ofall kinds, there was, in their territory,a rare commodity. Outcrops of diorite,with which to make stone axes, andoutcrops of sandstone, upon which togrind them to a fine edge. Outcrops of diorite occur elsewherein Victoria, at Gellibrand, in theOtway For
The Victorian naturalist . s of thisperiod, and if he did acquire anyknowledge of the natives he did notrecord it beyond stating that he knewsomewhat of their language. He didnot thus make mention of what Isuspect was the reason for the im-portance of the Gnareeb-Gnareeb. Aswell as fine lands well provided withwater and edible roots and game ofall kinds, there was, in their territory,a rare commodity. Outcrops of diorite,with which to make stone axes, andoutcrops of sandstone, upon which togrind them to a fine edge. Outcrops of diorite occur elsewherein Victoria, at Gellibrand, in theOtway Forest; at Ceres and DogRocks, near Geelong; at the HowquaRiver, near Mansfield; on Deep Creek,near Eddington; and on Mount Wil-liam, near Lancefield. In the WesternDistrict there is a small deposit atJaluka; but most of the material forthe local axes must have come fromone of the several quarries on thistribes territory. Some of these deposits 318 Vic. Nat.—Vol. 85 (see text)Hopkins RiBerramboolStation. theat Photo: Author. are known to me: one is on , on the headwaters of ReedyCreek; another is in the bed of theHopkins River at the BerramboolFord Bridge; a third is on the banksof the Hopkins River on BerramboolStation, about a mile downstreamfrom the homestead. This appears tohave been the principal quarry of thistribe—an area of about 36 feet inlength and about 6 feet in width iscovered with chippings and flakes de-tached from the protruding boulderson the waters edge, possibly by theusual method of lighting a fire on therock, and throwing cold water uponit when hot. This would cause the rockto explode, or, at least, to fracture. Diorite also outcrops on the riverbed upstream from Berrambool Home-stead, close to a permanent large anddeep waterhole in the Hopkins River,from which the Station probably tookits name: (Berrambool, should pro-bably be Burumboluk, large or deepwater); and there is also a depositon Grays Creek, a tributary of theHopkins River. It is at th
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