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those mountains, Thibet, China, and Tartary is inhabited by a camel 
with two humps ; while all the S.W. portion of the district even in 
the same latitudes as Persia, Asia Minor, and Algeria, is inhabited 
by a different “ representative” species with only one hump, but agree¬ 
ing in most other points of structure, audall the peculiarities of habits ; 
and so of a vast number of other birds and quadrupeds. (Several 
other specimens were here shown, and other representative centres 
pointed out on the maps separated by mountain chains, &c.) I 
■only desire by these remarks to exemplify to you one great natural 
law of which the acclimatiser may obviously without risk of failure 
take advantage to enrjch with additional animals aiiy tract of 
country ; and I also desire to prove in this way that many parts of 
the earth suited for certain animals are not inhabited by them. 
Of quadrupeds useful for food, by far the largest number and 
most important to the ac^imatiser, belong to the great group of 
ruminating animals which chew the cud, and havo a cloven foot. Of 
these there are no less than fifty different species inhabiting India 
in latitudes corresponding to those occupied by Australia, including 
upwards of twenty species of deer, six antelopes, and various species 
of sheep, goat, ox, &c. Iu corresponding latitudes in both hemi¬ 
spheres in Africa, you have about fifty other species, here curiously 
enough the deer being represented by only one species, but the an¬ 
telopes, or hollow horned ruminants, reaching the marvellous number 
of thirty-four distinct kinds. In the corresponding latitudes of 
North America you have at least twelve species of wild ruminants, 
including six deer, one antelope, one goat, two sheep, and two oxen ; 
while in the same Australian latitudes in South America we have 
twelvu totally different spades of ruminants, including three species 
of llama and alpaca, eight species of deer, and a goat. And now 
comes the extraordinary fact to which I have been gradually leading 
your attention, that while Nature has so abundantly furnished forth 
the natural larder of every other similarly situated country on the faee 
of the earth with a great variety, and a profusion of individuals of 
ruminants good for food, not one single creature of the kind inhabits 
Australia! If Australia had been colonised by any of the lazy 
nations of the earth, this nakedness of the land would have been 
indeed an oppressive misfortune, but Englishmen love a good piece 
of voluntary hard work, and you will all, I am sure, rejoice with 
me that this great piece of nature’s work has been left to us to do ; 
that this large continent extending from the 10th to the 40th 
parallel of latitude, capable of supporting 100 out of the 180 
species of known ruminating animals, may by us be filled with such 
