Notes on the names given to minerals and rocks by the aborigines of Tasmania

The enquiry into the name given by the Aborigines to their stone implements led naturally to a further enquiry into the names of rocks and minerals distinguished by that race. The result is interesting enough; in several instances the literal meaning of the words used would be ascertained, and the meaning of other words which were rather a puzzle could be made out with a tolerable amount of certainty.
Yet these studies throw such a curious light on the mental condition of the Aborigines, that, instead of being a mere collection of names, this paper rather deals with a number of questions connected with the life of this primitive race.