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ACCOUNT OF THE ENGLISH COLONY [November 



The fubjoined Engraving is from a Drawing made on the fpot 

 by Governor Hunter. 



0 I T HOMMN CU S FAIR AD OXU 3 



AN AMTHEBIOIUS AmMAlL of the MOIE JKIWB . 



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The Ornithorhynchus is only found in frefh-water lakes, of which there are many in the inte- 

 rior parts of the country ; fome three quarters of a mile long, and feveral hundred yards broad. 

 It does not fwim upon the fuiface of the water, but comes up occafionally to breathe, which it 

 does in the fame manner as the turtle. When upon the ground it runs with much the fame 

 degree of activity as a land tortoife. It inhabits the banks of the lakes, and is fuppofed to feed 

 in the muddy places which furround them} but the particular kind of food on which it fubfifts 

 is not known. 



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