have in a few days grown very tame, but none have lived more than two or three weeks.  Yet it is still possible that when their proper food shall be better known, they may be domesticated.  Near some water, in this journey, was found the dung of an animal that fed on grass, which, it was supposed, could not have been less than a horse.  A kanguroo, so much above the usual size, would have been an extraordinary phaenomenon, though no larger animal has yet been seen, and the limits of growth in that species are not ascertained.  The tail of the kanguroo, which is very large, is found to be used as a weapon of offence, and has given such severe blows to dogs as to oblige them to desist from pursuit.  Its flesh is coarse and lean, nor would it probably be used for food, where there was not a scarcity of fresh provisions.  The disproportion between the upper and lower parts of this animal is greater than has been shown in any former delineations of it, but is well expressed in the plate inserted here.

The dimensions of a stuffed kanguroo in the possession of Mr. Nepean, are these,

f. in. 
Length from the point of the nose to the end of the tail, 6   1
—­ of the tail,                                           2   1
——­      head,                                           0   8
——­      fore legs,                                      1   0
——­      hinder legs,                                    2   8
Circumference of the forepart, by the legs,               1   1
——­             lower parts,         ——­                3   2

The middle toe of the hind feet is remarkably long, strong, and sharp.

The natives of New South Wales, though in so rude and uncivilized a state as not even to have made an attempt towards clothing themselves, notwithstanding that at times they evidently suffer from the cold and wet, are not without notions of sculpture.  In all these excursions of Governor Phillip, and in the neighbourhood of Botany Bay and Port Jackson, the figures of animals, of shields, and weapons, and even of men, have been seen carved upon the rocks, roughly indeed, but sufficiently well to ascertain very fully what was the the object intended.  Fish were often represented, and in one place the form of a large lizard was sketched out with tolerable accuracy.  On the top of one of the hills, the figure of a man in the attitude usually assumed by them when they begin to dance, was executed in a still superior style.  That the arts of imitation and amusement, should thus in any degree precede those of necessity, seems an exception to the rules laid down by theory for the progress of invention.  But perhaps it may better be considered as a proof that the climate is never so severe as to make the provision of covering or shelter a matter of absolute necessity.  Had these men been exposed to a colder atmosphere, they would doubtless have had clothes and houses, before they attempted to become sculptors.