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[Mutdapilly] or Mudheripilly ( there is no letter in the
English language which represents exactly the sound which I
have represented by the digraph dh in the name). Mudheri may
be translated broadly as unpleasantly sticky and dirty, and
pilly, a gully. I am of opinion that the name relates to
a gully in the vicinity of [Mutdapilly] which, in wet weather may
be so described. It runs through a rich loose alluvial soil
and is a tributary of [Warril Creek]. Locally it is known,
significantly, as the [Black Gully]. Analogous to this name
is [Mudgeeraba] (Mudheriba) a place near [Nerang] which is swampy
and which I found when crossing it in wet weather some forty
years ago to be decidedly"mudheri", This name, [John Allen],
Abo., in his vocabulary,translates as, place of infant's excrement,
but curiously, when in conversation with an aboriginal
collaborater of his ,I found the cause of the error.

[Jebropilly], I do not know,nor do I know its geographical
position, the first part of the name sounds something like a
word meaning grasshopper but there is no certainty of this.

[Boona], Boonah,boonau,(slight terminal differences in
Yagarabul, Kabi and Yugumbir respectively,means bloodwood tree.,
the Eucalyptus corymbosa. A coruption of this word exists in
the name of a place in the [Logan] district in the place name
[Benoble]. This should be Bunauba, place of bloodwood trees, or as the blacks called it,
Bunauba garara (place of blood-wood trees tall).

[Purga], Meaning unknown to me. This does not sound like
an aboriginal word.

[Munbilla]. Meaning unknown to me. billa may be a corrupted
spelling of pilly, meaning a gully. In itself it does not
mean water for in this locality aboriginals' word for water is
tabbil or, alternatively, koong. The word may relate to a
long narrow lagoon near [Munbilla] on what was at one time part
of [Fassifern cattle station], and which was,I believe,at one time
used as a sheep wash pool,but there is no certainty of this.

[Woogaroo] . A map published in 1848 shows a creek in the
vicinity, a tributary of the [Brisbane River],named Woogero.

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