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hibiting a very interesting sight. Guillemots were seen 

 seated upright along the projecting shelvings in regular 

 order, resembling so many sentinels on the look-out. 

 Many Gannets also were seen about the extreme point of 

 this island. On Amherst Island we saw many houses, a 

 small church, and on the highest land a large cross, indi- 

 cating the Catholic tendency of the inhabitants. Several 

 small schooners lay in the little harbor called Pleasant 

 Bay, and we intend to pay them an early visit to-morrow. 

 The wind is so cold that it feels to us all like the middle 

 of December at Boston. 



Magdalene Islands, June IS. This day week we were 

 at Eastport, and I am sure not one of our party thought 

 of being here this day. At four this morning we were 

 seated at breakfast around our great drawing-table ; the 

 thermometer was at 44° ; we blew our fingers and drank 

 our coffee, feeling as if in the very heart of winter, and 

 when we landed I felt so chilled that it would have been 

 quite out of the question to use my hands for any delicate 

 work. We landed between two great bluffs, that looked 

 down upon us with apparent anger, the resort of many a 

 Black Guillemot and noble Raven, and following a tortuous 

 path, suddenly came plump upon one of God's best finished 

 jewels, a woman. She saw us first, for women are always 

 keenest in sight and sympathy, in perseverance and 

 patience, in fortitude, and love, and sorrow, and faith, and, 

 for aught I know, much more. At the instant that my 

 eyes espied her, she war, in full run towards her cottage, 

 holding to her bosom a fine babe, simply covered with a 

 very short shirt, the very appearance of which set me 

 shivering. The woman was dressed in coarse French 

 homespun, a close white cotton cap which entirely sur- 

 rounded her face tied under her chin, and I thought her the 

 wildest-looking woman, both in form and face, I had seen 

 for many a day. At a venture, I addressed her in French, 

 and it answered well, for she responded in a wonderful 



