In some parts ofthe Colony it is called Blackwood, on account of its darkcolour. -- Conger labiatus, Castin. which gives him a secure height of fromfive to six feet, and is gravely considering you with the airof the old man he is named from. His descendants have dropped the adjective, and ithas come to pass that the word jackass denotes to anAustralian something quite different from its meaning to otherspeakers of our English tongue.
been sometimes likened to orangeblossoms, andthe rich evergreen leaves obtain for some of them the name ofLaurels. Renwick, `Betrayed,' p. [In a listof `barbarisms']: Gibber, a stone. According to Dr.
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