APPENDIX. 
late in growing, and when only begun to grow, it is like 
a flrong down ; however, in fome parts it begirds earlier than 
others, as about the mouth, &c. In all of the young 
Kangaroos yet brought home (although fome as large as a 
full grown cat), they have all the marks of a foetus ; no hair; 
ears lapped clofe over the head ; no marks on the feet of 
having been ufed in progreffive motion. The large nail on the 
great toe fharp at the point ; and the iides of the mouth 
united fomething like the eye-lids of a puppy juft whelped, 
having only a paffage at the anterior part. This union of 
the two lips on the fides is of a particular fl:ru6lure, it 
wears off as it grows up, and by the time it is of the fize of 
a fmall rabbit, difappears. 
Of the 'Teeth of the Kangaroo. 
The teeth of this animal are fo fingular, that it is 
impoffible, from them, to fay what tribe it is of. There is 
a faint mixture in them, correfponding to thofe of different 
tribes of animals. 
Take the mouth at large, refpeding the fituation of 
the teeth, it would clafs in fome degree with the Scalpris 
N n deritata ; 
