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Castle Hill

Language: 
NSW COAST
Australian: 
Mongailee
English JS Main: 
Castle Hill
English: 
[ÔInterested in the nomenclature of places in the County of Cumberland, [the rev. W.B. Clarke, ÔThe father of Australian GeologyÕ), Clarke obtained from Narquiqui, the Chief of the South Creek natives, the aboriginal names for the following: South Creek (Wianamatta), Baulkham Hills (Norree), Castle Hill (Mongailee), Prospect Hill (Waimalee), North Rocks and the country between Toongabbie and Baulkham Hills (Borromarree).Õ [James Jervis: Rev. W.B Clarke: ÔThe Father of Australian GeologyÕ:, JRAHS, XXX, vi, 1944]]
Category: 
place: proper
Source: 
Jervis, James
Page: 
378
Line: 
9.2
Respelt: 
Mangali
Part of speech: 
noun
Meaning Clue: 
’dara-galai’ = ‘Fore-finger ‘: Collins 1 [508.2:27]; ’baru-galai’ = ‘Middle or ring'd finger’: Collins 1 [508.2:28]; ’wiling-alai’ = ‘Little finger’: Collins 1 [508.2:29.1]; ------------- ’Dabuwa-gali’ = [pipeclay finger]: Phillip in Hunter [324:14]; ’Buri-dya-wu-gali’ = ‘Breakfast Point’: [c:38:18] ’Wugan-ma-gali’ = ‘Farm Cove’: [c:36:15] -------------- ’baru’ = ‘between, in the midst’: Mathews: Dharawal, 1901 [149:24.2] --------------- ’Wåma-yili’ = ’- in 10 minutes to War-mul,’: [c:23:3.1] ’bura-yili’ = ‘opposite to Berowra’: Clark, W.B., diary [94:8] ’mugu-wa-yili’ = ‘Castle Hill’: Clark, W.B., diary [94:4] ========== ’wugan’ = ‘Crow’: [c:24:4]

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