 | Theology - 1829 - 434 pages
...imbedded : this stratum continues for sixteen to twenty feet above the water : for the next ten feet there is a horizontal stratum of black schistose rock,...executed upon a ground of red ochre, (rubbed on the black schistose,) and were delineated by dots of a white argillaceous earth, which had been worked up into... | |
 | George Grey - Aboriginal Australians - 1841 - 472 pages
...imbedded : this stratum continues for sixteen to twenty feet above the water : for the next ten feet there is a horizontal stratum of black schistose rock,...to be particularly described : they were executed on a ground of red ochre, (rubbed on the black schistus,) and were delineated by dots of a white argillaceous... | |
 | Sir William Jackson Hooker - Botany - 1842 - 480 pages
...drawings by the natives; representing tolerable figures of sharks, porpoises, turtles, lizards, &c., they were executed upon a ground of red ochre (rubbed on the black schistus rock), and were delineated by dots of white argillaceous earth. The islands touched at on... | |
 | Julian Edmund Tenison-Woods - Australia - 1865 - 478 pages
...weather had excavated several tiers of galleries or caves. The sides of these were covered with drawings. They were executed upon a ground of red ochre (rubbed on the black schist), with dots of an argillaceous paste. They represented figures of sharks, porpoises, turtles, lizards,... | |
 | Samuel Bennett - Australia - 1865 - 710 pages
...the cliffs a variety of native paintings, representing animals, weapons, utensils, and other objects. They were executed upon a ground of red ochre, rubbed on the dark schistus rook ; the figures were outlined by dots, and the objects further delineated by transverse... | |
 | Ernest Favenc - Australia - 1888 - 510 pages
...imbedded. This stratum continues for sixteen to twenty feet above the water ; for the next ten feet there is a horizontal stratum of black schistose rock,...executed upon a ground of red ochre (rubbed on the black schistus), and were delineated by dots of white argillaceous earth, which had been worked up into a... | |
 | Thomas Worsnop - Aboriginal Australians - 1897 - 372 pages
...jasper are imbedded. This stratum continues for 16ft. to 20ft. above the water. For the next ]0ft. there is a horizontal stratum of black schistose rock,...executed upon a ground of red ochre, rubbed on the black schistus, and were delineated by dots of a white argillaceous earth, which had been worked up into... | |
 | Australasia - 1889 - 768 pages
...pa i tilings were discovered on the 23rd June, 1821, by Cunningham who accompanied the expedition. " They were executed upon a ground of red ochre, rubbed on the black schistus forming the cave walls, and were delineated by dots of a white argillaceous earth which had... | |
 | Queensland. Department of Public Lands - Aboriginal Australians - 1901 - 360 pages
...Antonio conveyed Mr. Montgomery and Mr. Cunningham to Clack's Island . . . for the next ten feet there ia a horizontal stratum of black schistose rock, which...executed upon a ground of red ochre (rubbed on the black schistus), and were deliueated by dots of a white argillaceous earth, which had been worked up into... | |
 | James George Frazer - Religion - 2000 - 534 pages
...above the water : for the next 10 feet there is a hori2ontal stratum of black schistose rock, which is of so soft a consistence, that the weather had excavated...to be particularly described : they were executed on a ground of red ochre (rubbed on the black schistus), and were delineated by dots of a white argillaceous... | |
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For the next ]0ft. there is a horizontal stratum of black schistose rock, which was of so soft a consistence that the weather had excavated several tiers of galleries, upon the roof and sides of which some curious drawings were observed, which deserve... 