. A general history of quadrupeds : the figures engraved on wood . LI 522 HISTORY OF THE WOMBACH. « Sydney, New South Wales, « This animal was found upon an ifland on the coaft;of New South Wales, in latitude 40 36 S. where con-fiderable numbers were caught by the company of a (liipwhich had been wrecked there on her voyage from Ben-gal to Port Jackfon. *< I received this animal alive, by a veflel which I hadfent to the relief of the fufFeixrs: It was exceed)* glyweak when it arrived, as it had, during its confinementon board, refufed every kind of fuftenance, except afmall qua
. A general history of quadrupeds : the figures engraved on wood . LI 522 HISTORY OF THE WOMBACH. « Sydney, New South Wales, « This animal was found upon an ifland on the coaft;of New South Wales, in latitude 40 36 S. where con-fiderable numbers were caught by the company of a (liipwhich had been wrecked there on her voyage from Ben-gal to Port Jackfon. *< I received this animal alive, by a veflel which I hadfent to the relief of the fufFeixrs: It was exceed)* glyweak when it arrived, as it had, during its confinementon board, refufed every kind of fuftenance, except afmall quantity of boiled rice, which was forced down itsthroat. I had it frequently taken out of the box inwliich it was kept, that it might receive the benefit ofthe warmth of the fun, which, however, it did not feemto enjoy ; but whenever it could ihelter itfelf under aIhrub, there it would continue and fleep. It refufedevery kind of food on fliore as it had done on board, butwe could fee it fomctimes nibble a little of the roots of HISTORY OF QUADRUPEDS. 523 ruflies or grafs : It grew weaker ever
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