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Seals without number, lived comfortably and happily, 

 visited his father-in-law and the scholar, by the aid of 

 his dogs, of which he kept a great pack, bartered or sold 

 his commodities, as his relations did, and cared about 

 nothing else in the world. Whenever the weather was 

 fair, he walked with his dame over the moss-covered rocks 

 of the neighborhood; and during winter killed Ptarmi- 

 gans and Caribous, while his eldest son attended to the 

 traps, and skinned the animals caught in them. He had 

 the only horse that was" to be found in that part of the 

 country, as well as several cows; but, above all, he was 

 kind to every one, and every one spoke well of him. The 

 only disagreeable thing about his plantation or settle- 

 ment, was a heap of fifteen hundred carcasses of skinned 

 Seals, which, at the time when we visited the place, in 

 the month of August, notwithstanding the coolness of the 

 atmosphere, sent forth a stench that, according to the 

 ideas of some naturalists, might have sufficed to attract 

 all the Vultures in the United States. 



During our stay at Bras d'Or, the kind-hearted and 



good Mrs. daily sent us fresh milk and butter, for 



which we were denied the pleasure of making any return. 



COD FISHING 



Although I had seen, as I thought, abundance of fish 

 along the coasts of the Floridas, the numbers which I 

 found in Labrador quite astonished me. Should your sur- 

 prise while reading the following statements be as great 

 as mine was while observing the facts related, you will 

 conclude, as I have often done, that Nature's means of 

 providing small animals for the use of larger ones, and 

 vice versa, are as ample as is the grandeur of that world 

 which she has so curiously constructed. 



