54 SMALL ROCK KANGAROO. 



where they could have been recently brought, but 

 always among grass and old trees, and sometimes 

 embedded in the conglomerate, which, although of 

 recent origin, the sea is now wearing away. 



A small kangaroo is common among the rocks of 

 Cape Upstart, being often seen peeping over their 

 summits, but darting into the holes and crevices on 

 the slightest movement. We shot some, but I 

 unfortunately lost the only skin I preserved. It 

 agreed nearly with Gould's Macropus penicillatus, 

 except that it seemed a little larger, and the rusty 

 colour about the rump was not very apparent. One 

 measured — End of nose to root of tail, 21 in. ; 

 length of tail, 19^ in. ; head, nose to base of skull, 

 5 in. ; girth of body just before the thigh, 18 in. 



Immense beds of mangroves stretcli round the 

 head of Upstart Bay, and a wide flat runs for some 

 miles beyond them into the country, over which are 

 seen some bold hills, in separate groups, rising like 

 islands out of the flat country. From their contours 

 these hills are undoubtedly composed of granite, 

 like Cape Upstart and the other hills on the coast. 

 At one part there was a considerable space between 

 two of these groups, in which no high land was 

 visible, the flat seeming to stretch like a broad river 

 valley into the interior. On our subsequent visit, 

 however, to this anchorage, in 1844, being on deck 

 one clear morning, just at day-break, I saw this gap 

 filled up by a very distinctly marked range of hills, 

 very distant, and evidently raised above the horizon 



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