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spects, from any other, both in animal and 

 vegetable productions. The largest quadruped 

 found in it is the kangaroo, it being sometimes 

 six feet in height. When the young are born 

 they are only an inch long, and are transferred 

 by the female to a sort of pouch under the 

 belly, called an abdominal pouch, in which 

 the young one remains three-quarters of a year, 

 until it weighs nearly fourteen pounds In de- 

 fending themselves when attacked, they support 

 themselves on their enormous tail and one foot, 

 and strike with the other, which is armed with 

 a long and strong nail, and thus can rip up their 

 enemy, which is generally a dog employed to 

 hunt them. It has been known to take up a dog 

 in its fore-feet, and strike and kill it with its 

 hind claw. When a female kangaroo has been 

 hunted, and, in order to facilitate her own escape, 

 she has been seen to take her young one out of 

 her pouch, and throw it as far as she could on 

 one side, out of the way of the pursuing dogs ; 

 if she escapes, she returns to seek it. 



The emeu is the next largest animal found 

 in New South Wales. It is a bird, but a bird 

 without wings, very strong and swift of foot, 

 and able to make a good defence against the 



