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—' Approximate eastwards extension
of the section system today some
areas are overlapping with the eight-
subsection system

1 Murchison, Greenough, Sanford,
Roderick, Wooramel, Gascoyne
and Lyons Rivers, Lake Throssal,
extending eastwards into South
Australia.

2 Ashburton, Fortescue, Oakover and
Throssel Rivers.

3 Roebourne District, Yule, Maitland,
Shaw and de Grey Rivers.

4 Lower Fitzroy and Lennard Rivers
to Broome

5 Subsections: Ord, Denham, Lower
Fitzroy and Margaret Rivers, Sturt
Creek.

Map 4: Distribution of section systems in Western Australia at the beginning of the 20"‘
century, according to Mathews 19034.

Regions 1 to 4 represent four-section systems, region 5 an eight-subsection system. Some
of the Variations between the regions are solely terminological, others are structural. Bot.l1 will
be analysed in more detail below, but it is suflicient here simply to quote the terms Mathews

associates with each region:

Region 1: Bfildyeni
Kaimarra
Region 2: Bulchani
Kurrimurri
Region 3: Paldyarri
Burungo
Region 4: Panadyerri
Parungo

Burung
Bugarlu

Burronga
Bauaka

Kaiamara
Banaka

Kaiarnba
Panaka

II Ii

Table 2: Terminologies of Mathews’ section systems”

12 Unless otherwise stated, the structural disposition as presented in Figure l is used throughout this work to

represent sections.