Some months since, we extracted from the Port Philip journals, several accounts illustrative of a mysterious animal supposed to inhabit the lakes of that part of Australia, but a specimen of which had not been obtained, notwithstanding it had been seen by several individuals. Although at the time it was generally supposed that it was a mere “creature of the imagination,” parties were constantly on the watch to endeavor to solve so interesting a question as the existence or non existence of an undescribed animal, inhabiting the waters of Australia. It would appear from the following, taken from a late number of the Geelong Advertiser, that it is an animal belonging to the seal family.  Full Article

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