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bold rock from the shore is extremely irregular, and 

 shelving in extensive beds, bearing a rude resemblance to 

 roads unskilfully hewn from the rocky ascent. This low 

 broken skirt extends nearly from the Black Land to 

 Fortune Bay, and consists entirely of bare rock, in many 

 places covered with lichens of beautiful colours, and in- 

 terspersed with a timid willow (salix reticulata), which 

 creeps along the face of the rock, unable to rise before the 

 bleak and withering winds. Numerous alpine plants are 

 exposed when the sun has dissolved the snow, but these 

 experience but a transient existence, and can be collected 

 only during a short period in summer. 



At that season the sun exerts surprising force along this 

 space, in which Lievely is of course included. The accu- 

 mulation of heat is then so great that all vegetable life is 

 rapidly evolved, and the situation of Lievely becomes 

 pleasant. The whale ships having already arrived, or 

 proceeded to the northward, increase the comfort of the 

 natives by the coarse articles which thej' give them in 

 exchange for their seal-skin dresses, and all becomes 

 bustle, activity, and enjoyment. It is then also the 

 Greenlander experiences that happiness which attaches 

 him to his dreary home, which he would not exchange for 

 such useless luxuries as warmer chmates could afford. 

 Such he wants not, nor covets, unless in the pernicious 

 consequence of having been enticed to know them. A 



