115

-2-

form of the peak through its tower and the skillions around it.

I have never head them meaning of Miketeebumgrai or [Beerwah]
but will ask Mr. [John Grigor].

Mr. [Grigor], Senior, has just rung. He says that there is
no truth in the collapse story and that the mountain is much the
same as it was in 1869 when he first saw it. He does not know
what the names mean but there is a legend of the blacks that the
mountains threw stones at one another and I have head it as fire
sticks and if this is right it would perhaps mean that the blacks
were handing down a tradition of a volcanic eruption which they
had witnessed and as the mountains have been extinct about 5
million years that would mean that intelligent human life has
been here for that time and this agrees with the last conclusions
of [Fairfield osborn]. Mr. [Grigor] says that on the southern side
of the base of [Crook Neck] there is an amount of fallen stone but
just big blocks about twelve feet across but nothing to agree with
such a collapse as you mention.

Yours faithfully,

(sgd.) [INIGO JONES].