O f the JL A N G A R O O.
This animal (probably from its fize) was the principal one
taken notice of' in this .illand; the only parts at firft
brought home were fome Ikins and fculls \ and I was favoured
with one of the fculls from Sir Jofeph Banks. As the
teeth o f fuch animals as 'are already known, in feme degree
point out their digeftivC ‘ organs, I was in hopes that
I might have been able to form an opinion: of ‘ the
particular tribe of the animals already known, to which
the Kangaroo fhould belong;. but the'teeth did not accord
with thofe, o f any one elafs of animals I w^s acquainted
with, therefore I was obliged tp wait with patience till I
could get the whole: and in many* of its other organs
the deviation from other animals is not lefe than in its teeth.,
In its mode of propagation it very probably comes nearer to
the Opolfum than any other animal i although it is. not at
all fimilarfto it in other refpedts. Its hair is ,of a greyilh
brown colour, fimilar to tjiat of the wild rabbit ,of Great
Britain, is thick and long when the animal is old; but it is
late