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178 which eem to approach him to the clas of the ruminant quadrupeds. His teticles were on the outide of the abdomen. Thee animals probably find a part of their food on the ea-coat, as we frequently oberved the prints of their feet in the and.

25th. Having left ome of my plants in the hands of the painter, that he might take a drawing of them, I followed the windings of the coat in a outh-eat direction. The large lippery pebbles which covered the trand were a great impediment to us in walking.

We found on the kirts of the foret a fence contructed by the natives againt the winds from the bay. It conited of tripes of the bark of the eucalyptus reinifera, interwoven between takes fixed perpendicularly into the ground, forming an arch, of about a third of the circumference of a circle, nine feet in length and three in height, with its convex ide turned toward the bay. A emicircular elevation covered with cinders, and heaped round with hells, pointed out the place where the natives dreed their victuals. Such a fence mut be of great ervice to them to prevent their fires being extinguihed, when the wind blows with violence from the ea.

Having croed a promontory of the coat, we walked with difficulty over the looe ands, which cover