76

Grosvenor Street,
Toowong,
April 15th, 1940.

Dear Mr. May,

In the review of place names which I
delivered to you today, I think that I forgot to
mention that the Queensland geographical name of
the mountain that the blacks called Mil-merran is
Mt. Domville which was named after one Captain
Domville who, I believe, had at some time, some pastoral
interest in the neighbourhood. Another mountain
or hill in the same district is called Captain's Bignells?
mountain after the same person. I may say that
the name of a a settlement, a little south of Milmerran township, is
called Tumavil, sometime written Tummaville, is derived
from the black's pronunciation of Domville.

Yours faithfully,
FJWatson