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our Hew, for the prefent : But. in another Subjed, I 
doubt not but that they may bedircovered 
But this Bag or Fouch is not only appropriated to the 
Female, as one w^ldguefs by what P. Bembiu (//j faid 
before : But if we may believe G. P 'tfo (h\ the Male has 
one too : Mas f (erne lla plane fimilu, (^c. (faith he) 
qmd notatu dignum^ mantkam (Jicet a famell(e dlverjam) 
hahet ; qua alternatis vkibm Catulos quoque ctrcumfert ; 
ficut avis mas amove pullorum, famellam ah incuhatu fub- 
inde liberans, 1 could have wiflied he had given us an 
Account of the diverfity of the Pouch in tht: Male^ from 
tliat of the Female ; and had one an Opportunity of 
Differing a Male^ it would much illuftrate the Hiftory 
of this Aoinial. So likewlfe the Author of the Prejettt 
State of his Majefty's Ifles and Territories in America, 
(pag 138.) tells us, That the Male has fuch another 
Turje under his Belly ^ and takes his turn to carry the Toung 
Onesy to eafe the Female, Bui more of the Male, when 
1 fhall come to mention the Tai ibi. 
This Contrivance of Nature for fecuring the Toung 
Ones from any Danger, till they are able to (hift for 
themfelves, I think, is not to be parallel'd in any Species 
of Animals , at lead of the Quadruped Kind, befides. 
Not that ftie is vvaottng in aoundantiy providing for 
their Vrejervation ; but fhe pleafes ber felf in ufing infi- 
nite /^i?r/>/jy in attaining the lame End. Nor is there 
wanting Inftances enough to evince it: What moft. 
reaches, and comes up to our Subjed is, what I find re- 
corded in Oppianm (kP) in his excellent Poem of Fi/hes : 
For in his HalieuticL^ defcribing the Philofiorgia of Fijh*' 
es, having mentioned the Dolphin, he comes to the Dog- 
fi(h, and tells us, that upon any Storm or Danger, if 
{kX) Halieutk. lib. i. i/fr. 152. 
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