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on such elevated plateaux were located certain tribes where the elevation
was such within the region of perpetual sun during the winter months, as
[crossed out - such was the case with the Omeo tribe]: at Omeo in Victoria and
Maneroo in New South Wales: But even in such cases the mountain
tribes usually occupied some of the higher River valleys which [crossed out - lay among] percolated
the Plateaux from either side, or where the tablelands were inaccessible
during the winter months, [crossed out - in summer] the tribes which claimed them
had their winter quarters in lower lying country.

Thus [crossed out - The Omeo tribe] on the Gippsland side one branch of the Baiaka
clan, the subdivision named Kŭtbŭn-taura or Fire carriers
whose headquarters were on the Avon River [crossed out - at the] in and outside the foothills
bordering the plains, during the summer time ascended the
spur of Mt Wellington where at a height of 5000 ft then reached the
southern edge of [crossed out - the] a Plateau now called the Snowy Plains; which
extended northward between the deep valleys of the Macalister and
Wonnangatta Rivers a distance of _____ miles to the Great Dividing
Range.

Similarly from the oppposite side the tribe which occupied the
valley of the [crossed out - Upper Ovens River and of its tributary the]
Buffalo River ascended during the summer, [crossed out - the latter] the
almost isolated Plateau called the Buffalo Mountain, [crossed out - and the]
and was therefore the distant and hostile neighbour of the Braiaka.
[crossed out -former the extensive tableland now known as the Dargo High Plains.]

Beyond [crossed out - these] and still following the Great Dividing Range to
[crossed out - the] north Eastward lies the vast tableland out of which
at successive elevations rise the sources of the Mitta Mitta
River, known now as the Bogong High Plains, and Omeo.

Here lived formerly a mountain tribe which was divided
into two great local groups. One was the Theddora Mittŭng (1)
occupying the [Cobungra - crossed out] the Mitta Mitta River and its tributaries [from - crossed out] upwards from
about the Gibbo mountain, the Upper Kiewa River and the Ovens
River above the Buffalo Mountain, thus being the neighbour of a
number of lowland tribes on the northern side of the Dividing Range, among which was the Buffalo tribe which was
claimed by my Woeworung informant as [the outlying member of the - crossed out] belonging to [the - crossed out] those
who had the ‘names’ (classes) Bunjil and Wang (1)

[Left margin notes]
Theddora Mittung

Mittung = a number
of people; also =
a number, many.
this word particularly appears
in Mitta-Mitta River in
reference to its rise & number
of tributaries.

(1) see p.-----p
see also as to the [??]
of the Buffalo & Omeo
with some Kurnai
clans. p.