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she has been married several years to a gentleman 

 who cultivates a large tract of land in a remote 

 situation. This mode of life gives her an oppor- 

 tunity of observing the manners of animals in a 

 wild state; and as she is a naturalist, and knows 

 Mr. Palmer's taste, she does not fail to enrich her 

 letters with much information that is novel and in- 

 teresting. In her last, she gives the history and 

 character of a favourite dog of a mixed breed, whose 

 parents might have been supposed to be a Newfound- 

 land and a colly, had the latter kind been in 

 America. " This dog,"* says Mrs. Mackenzie, 

 " possessed the most amiable disposition, and was 

 always on the watch to please, which made her a 

 general favourite. — Thus she lived, caressing and 

 caressed. She was very useful in driving cattle off 

 the bounds, and every other kind of service that such 

 animals are accustomed to be employed in about a 

 farai. The man-servant who lived with Mr. Mac- 

 kenzie at this time, was of a rough, tyrannical temper, 

 and often treated this fine creature very harshly ; 

 sending her to great distances, to save his own trouble, 

 and beating her most severely for every mistake. Her 

 patience and attachment, notwithstanding this beha- 

 viour, were astonishing. 



* I was supplied with this account by Mrs. Grant. 



