Sighting of a kangaroo by James Cook Size:XL: 120 x 100cm Coluber Vertebralia

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it caused trouble for his own party even before its defeat brought the Government down

the discharge of one's moral duty

Plate 21 for the paper 'Sur un moyen de donner la Direction aux machines aerostatiques'

run by the Sunday Mirror Newspaper

Sighting of a kangaroo by James Cook Size:XL: 120 x 100cm Coluber VertebraliaThe first sighting of a kangaroo (or wallaby) by Lieutenant James Cook and the sailors of the Endeavour expedition, June 1770: 'it was of a light mouse colour, and in size and shape very much resembling a greyhound'. Illustration from An account of the voyages for making discoveries in the southern hemisphere, by John Hawkesworth (London, 1773). Original: engraving. 1773