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GOULD’S MONOGRAPH OF KANGAROOS. 
The first number of this work has been laid before a recent 
meeting of the Tasmanian Society. It possesses a double in¬ 
terest as the production of an esteemed Associate of the Society. 
Among other illustrative matter, it contains the following 
account furnished to Mr. Gould bv the Honourable H. Elliot, 
late Private Secretary to Sir John Franklin, and himself one 
of our Members :— 
“ I have much pleasure in telling you all I know of the 
kangaroo-hunting in Van Diemen’s Land. The hounds are 
kept by Mr. Gregson, and have been bred by him from fox¬ 
hounds imported from England; and though not so fast as 
most hounds here now are, they are quite as fast as it is 
possible to ride to in that country. 
“ The boomer is the only kangaroo which shows good sport, 
for the strongest brush kangaroo cannot live above twenty 
minutes before the hounds; but as the two kinds are always 
found in perfectly different situations, we never were at a loss 
to find a boomer, and I must say that they seldom failed to 
show us good sport. We generally found in a high cover of 
young wattles; but sometimes we found in the open forest, 
and then it was really pretty to see the style in which a good 
kangaroo would go away. I recollect one day in particular, when 
a very fine boomer jumped up in the very middleofthe hounds, 
in the open forest: lie at first took a few high jumps with 
his head up, looking about him to see on which side the coast 
was clearest, and then without a moment’s hesitation lie stooped 
forward and shot away from the hounds, apparently w ithout an 
effort, and gave us the longest run I ever saw after a kangaroo. 
He ran fourteen miles by the map from point to point, and if 
he had had fair play, I have very little, doubt but that he 
would then have beaten us; but he had taken along a tongue 
of land which ran into the sea, so that, on being pressed, he 
was forced to try to sw r im across the arm of the sea, which, at 
the place wdiere he took the water, cannot have been less than 
two miles broad; in spite of a fresh breeze and a head sea 
against him, he got fully half way over, but he could not make 
head against the waves any further, and was obliged to turn 
back, when, being quite exhausted, he was killed. 
“ The distance lie ran, taking in the different bends in the line, 
cannot have been less than eighteen miles, and he certainly 
swam more than two. I can give no idea of the length of 
