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.

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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.