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There are numerous other names which doubtless arose from equally perceptible features, but being rather objectionable, we do not care to quote them.
Names of places arise generally from local features, or from some occurrence vivid enough to be worthy of note. Below are a few examples by way of illustration:—
Chittoo beal—termination of the gum timber.
Workin doloo—the black stump.
Nanowie—the sun.
Bocoin tcheric—broken reed.
Mirmile maroong—crooked pine.
Tye bulile—box forest infested by gerboas or kangaroo mice.
Tyrilie—The sky; this name is one given to an immense salt lake in the northern portion of Victoria.
In the aboriginal alphabet there are neither F nor X, P being substituted for the former and K for the latter.
