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THE ABORIGINES OF VICTORIA:
4. Kolore West of Muston's Creek, including Mount Rouse.
5. Coonawanne West of Emu Creek, including Mount Shadwell.
6. Warrnambool (or Pertobe) East of Merri Rivulet to Lake Terang.
7. Tooram West of Curdie's Creek.
8. Keilambeitch East of Lake Terang.
9. Leehoorah Mount Leura, Lakes Bulleen-Merri and Gnotuk.
10. Korotch or Koroche East of the River Moyne.
11. Mumkelunk Between the River Moyne and the River Shaw.
12. Weereitch-weereitch East of River Eumeralla.
13. Terrin Challum East of Salt Creek, including Mount Fyans.
14. Purteet Chowel South-east of Lake Boloke, including Mount Hamilton.
15. Terrumbehal Between the River Hopkins and Fiery Creek.
16. Werupurrong East of Fiery Creek.
17. Moocherrak South-west of the Pyrenees.
18. Punnoinjon East of the Serra Range.
19. Neitcheyong East of Mount William.
20. Yourwychall Between the River Wannon and the Grange Burn.
21. Narragoort East of Curdie's Creek.
22. Mullungkill South of Lake Purrumbete, including Mount Porndon.
23. Barrath Sherbrooke Creek, including Brown's Hill.

The areas marked out by Mr. Charles Gray, of Nareeb Nareeb, agree very closely with those laid down by Mr. Goodall.

The areas occupied by many of the tribes are small, but each seems to have had a fair proportion of water-frontage.

It would be difficult to subdivide the tract more justly than was done by the Aborigines.

The late Mr. E. S. Parker has given the following information respecting the divisions of a portion of Victoria:—

"I found on my first investigations into the character and position of these people that the country was occupied by a number of petty nations, easily distinguished from each other by their having a distinct dialect or language, as well as by other peculiarities. Each occupied its own portion of country, and so, as far as I could learn, never intruded on each other's territory, except when engaged in hostilities, or invited by regularly-appointed messengers. Thus, for the sake of example, the country on the northern and eastern shores of Port Phillip Bay and to the northward and westward up to Mount Macedon was inhabited by the Wawurrong; the country around Geelong and to the