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friends of their employers. Yet even here there is popula- 

 tion, perhaps endeared by domestic sweets. This thought 

 recalls the picture so admirably drawn by Horace, who could 

 have scarcely imagined that his delightful words would so 

 happily suit the situation. ' With the indulgence of the 

 reader I shall venture to apply them to this, is I believe, 

 the last retreat of social human life. 



Pone me, pigris ubi nulla campis 



Arbor sestiva recreatur aura : 



Quod latus mundi, nebulae, malusque 



Jupiter urget. 

 Pone sub curru nimium propinqui 

 Soils, in terra domibus negata, 

 Dulce rjdentem Lalagen amabo, 



Dulce loquentem. 



Place me, where frost the most severe 

 Forbids the tree a summer's air, 



In fogs oppressed and sad, — 

 Where wheels the sun's eternal course. 

 Still teeming light with boundless force. 



Nor human eye is glad ; 

 There give me but the honied smile. 

 And those sweet sounds which care beguile, 



There Lalagd, and life ! 



To many readers, I fear, the foregoing detail of views in 

 the most northerly parts of Davis's Strait may appear 

 tedious and unsatisfactory. To such I would presume to 

 say, that a faithful account of any part of the globe, which 



