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] trance of the harbour, where tents had been pitched for the purpoe of taking obervations, as we were ure of meeting there with a boat to carry us on board.

The atronomers expected the firt of Jupiter's atellites to appear at about a quarter of an hour after eight in the evening; but with all their activity they could not get their intruments ready in due time; o that the opportunity was lot. Bonvouloir, one of our officers, who had made the preliminary calculations a long time ince, was o affected by this diappointment, that he wept like a child.

One of our crew hot a young kangarou upon the hore. The animal, after running about a hundred yards along the and, threw himelf into the ea and expired. It was remarkable that he ued all his four feet in running, not upporting himelf olely upon the hinder feet, as he is uually repreented to do; though thee as well as the fore, are without hair on the inner ide. As he goes in quet of his food more in the night-time than during the day, nature has provided him with the membrane termed by zoologits membrana nictitans, ituated at the interior angle of the eye, which he can extend at pleaure over the whole ball. His tomath was full of vegetables, and divided by three very ditinct partitions, which