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. c H A P. imperfect iiiflruments, mnft itfelf be a work of time, and 
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'^-v — ' nmft require no little patience. In fome places, where 
the hole was rather too high to be reached from the 
ground, boughs of trees were laid to facilitate the afcent. 
The animals that take refuge in thofe places are probably 
the fquirrel, the opoffum, or the kanguroo-rat. At the 
: bottom of one of thefe trees, the ikin of a flying fquirrel 
was found. ■ ■ ■.. ^ 
In many places fires had lately been made; but in 
one only were feen any ftielk of oyfters or mufcles, and 
there not more than half a dozen. Filli-bones were not 
found at all, which feems to prove, that in their jour- 
nies inland thefe people do not carry with them any pro- 
vifions of that kind. Kanguroos were frequently feen^ 
but were fo iliy that it was very difficult to ilioot them. 
With refpe6l to thefe animals, it is rather an extraordi- 
nary circumftance, that, notwithftanding their great 
fliynefs, and notwithftanding they are daily fl.:Lot at, 
more of them are feen near the camp than in any other 
part of the country. The kanguroo, though it refem- 
bles the jerboa in the peculiarity of uling only the hinder 
legs in progreffion, does not belong to that genus. 
The pouch of the female, in which the young are 
nurfed, is thought to connecSl it rather with the opoffum 
tribe. This extraordinary formation, hitherto efteemed 
peculiar to that one genus, feems, however, in New 
Holland 
