AUGUST. 



markable deviation from ordinary circumstances, a contriv- 

 ance beautifully simple, yet perfectly 

 adequate to the end required. Does 

 not the conviction come at once, un- 

 sought, irresistible, like the light of 

 noon upon the open eye, that there 

 was a contriver, an intelligent maker? 

 And who is he but God ? 



C. Yonder goes a red fox, crossing the road just before 

 us : he does not seem in a great hurry, leisurely leaping 

 along with light bounds, and occasionally stopping to look 

 at us. He has gone out of sight among the young trees 

 in the swamp. 



F. The fox does not appear very numerous with us, 

 though it is now and then seen. Richardson considers our 

 Red Fox a distinct species from the European, under the 

 name of Canis Fulvus ; but there is so little difference, that 

 Cuvier, a high authority, considers it as only a variety of 

 that species. In Newfoundland, the furriers distinguish 

 three kinds, the common Red or Yellow, the Patch or Cross 

 Fox, of a brindled colour, and the Black or Silver Fox, very 

 rare and valuable. A short time ago I saw a fox, which a 

 young man had taken in spring from a litter that he had 

 found ; he said that it was at that time quite black ; when 

 I saw it, it appeared to me very closely to resemble the 

 Cross, or Patch Fox. He was an amusing little fellow, very 

 shy and coy : he was chained to a post, and allowed to run 

 under the house : when I went to see him, it was difficult 

 to entice him out ; as it appeared, though familiar enough 

 with his friends, he was averse to making acquaintance with 

 strangers ; however, his master, by means of a bone, induced 

 him to appear, while I peeped at him round a corner of the 



