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Correspondence Between Sydney May And F.J Watson Concerning Aboriginal Place Names (ITM489477)
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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 Bignelles 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