KANGAROOS.

"I have been much entertained during my wanderings through the country

adjoining this town, in observing the singular habits and extreme

sagacity of the kangaroos. I have noticed several who carried in their

fore paws a sort of umbrella, or fan, which they held so as to protect

their head and shoulders from the violence of the sun. One day I slipped

a brace of large greyhounds at a female who carried one of these useful

appendages, which she soon dropped and escaped: it was formed of a large

bough, over which some large leaves were spread, and fastened on simply

by the shoots of the bough sticking into the leaf."--_From a letter

dated Hobart's Town, February_, 1829.

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