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delineations of it, but is well exprefled in the plate 
infer ted here. 
The dimenfions of a fluffed kanguroo in the polTef- 
lion of Mr. Nepean^ are thefe^ 
Length from the point of the nofe to the end of j^. 
the tailj 6 i 
= — — of the tail, — - — 2 i 
, head, — — - o 8 
_ , fore legs, - — — 10 
^ — — ™. hinder legs, 2 8 
Circumference of the forepart, by the legs, i i 
— — lower parts, — . 32 
The middle toe of the hind feet is remarkably longj 
ilrong, and fLiarp. 
The natives of New South Wales, though in fo rude 
and uncivilized a ftate as not even to have made an 
attempt towards clothing themfelves, not with itanding 
t^-n'- at times they evidently fuffer from the cold and 
^wet, are not without notions of fculpture. In all thefe 
excurfions of Governor Phillip, and in the neighbour- 
hood of Botany Bay and Port Jackfon, the figures of 
animals, of fhields, and weapons, and even of men, have 
been feen carved upon the rocks, roughly indeed, but 
fufEciently well to afcertain very fully what was the 
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