KANGAROO. 
leaps ; springing over bushes seven or eight 
feet high, and going progressively from rock 
to rock. 
When in motion, this animal carries it's 
tail quite at right angles with it's body ; and, 
as it alights, often looks back. It is much 
too swift for greyhounds ; and frequently 
escaped from some of the fleetest of those ani- 
mals, with which it was hunted, on it's first 
discovery, by Sir Joseph Banks. The tail is 
it's weapon of defence ; with which it.is salci 
to be capable of beating away the strongest 
dog. 
According to our first navigators, the Hesh 
of the Kangaroo is very good eating ; but the 
old ones are reported, by more recent voy- 
agers, to be lean, tough, and coarse. 
*' In the spring of 1793," says Mr. Pen- 
nant, *' I had an opportunity of observing the 
manners of one brought into the capital alive. 
It was in full health, very a6live, and very 
mild and good-natured. On first coming out 
of 
