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Canada for this part of the coast. Mr. Whiteley's house is really 

 a fine one for this section of the country. It is a good sized, two- 

 storied affair, much longer than broad, as is the custom with arctic 

 and sub-arctic houses, and very warmly built. Its white paint at- 

 tracts one from the outside, while a cosey fire and a cup of hot tea 

 are always handy within. Mrs. Whiteley is quite ready to welcome 

 a "new comer," and the hearty, rosy children are as delighted to 

 find a stranger to take notice of them as can be imagined. The 

 sitting and dining room are combined ; a large, square, or rather 

 oblong, stove heats the room, and there are plenty of chairs, stools, 

 benches, and an easy lounge ready for occupancy at any time. I 

 shall not soon forget the cosey times I have had in that same room 

 with the assembled family ; and the games and plays with which 

 long winter evenings have been whiled away. The many pleasant 

 faces almost recall me there as I write, and the hope of some 

 day meeting them again is present with me. 



Outside of the house the contour of the island is rather peculiar ; 

 though if not strange to an inhabitant it is at least so to a visitor. 

 The whole island is one mass of granite rock overlaid here and 

 there with scanty vegetation. There are two principal crests of 

 about sixty-five, and eighty feet in height above the sea-level ; 

 their rocky summits are crowned, as is usual with nearly all such 

 elevations about the coast, with a pile of stones several feet in height 

 which serve as landmarks : they are called Nescopies : the sailors 

 call them the "American Men." 



The other buildings upon the island are a small store and shop ; 

 here are kept a variety of articles of hardware, groceries, and dry 

 goods, as well as a general assortment of articles of clothing, boots 

 and shoes, hats, caps, and oilskin suits — the latter of which are 

 so much used among the men. The assortment of nicknacks 

 of one kind or another is always more or less Hmited, and confined 

 to a few of the many useful articles of dress and use rather than of 

 the kind to tempt the coppers of the mamma and papa, as is so cus- 

 tomary in the United States and other parts of the world. It is 

 rather a store of necessity than one of choice and amusement. 



