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Island, and that the owner must have been a great " witch," the word used by 

 the Indian — who also informed me that by use of these oblong pieces of bone, 

 the man could kill his enemies — their use from this it would appear was not 

 ornament only, but a charm also.' 



" Such is the account of my friend the Rev. Martin Blackmore, and as T 

 was the next person to visit the place though some four years later, I must say 

 that his report tallies in every respect with my own observation. The Indi- 

 an's account also agrees perfectly with what was told me by Indians to whom I 

 shewed some of the bones and arrows that I myself had collected in the same 

 place. The presence of iron weapons is easily accounted for, as since the 

 reign of Henry VII. the shores of Newfoundland have been visited by British 

 seamen in pursuit of the coJ-fishei-y, and collisions occasionally took place 

 between the natives and the crews of the fishing-vessels — the fishermen, though 

 not allowed to form settlements or raise buildings in the colony, except such 

 as were absolutely necessary for the pursuit and curing of the fish, customari- 

 ly left such things behind them as could not easily be transported at the 

 close of each season, and the natives watchingfor the departure of the whites, 

 invariably plundered their depots. The disappearance of the Red Indian of 

 Newfoundland is only of recant date, and many persons now living have come 

 into personal contact with members of the race. They are now all extinct, 

 and the last representative of them (Mary March as she was named,) died 

 some 35 or 40 years ago. She had been taken when a child and brought up in 

 her captor's family as a servant, but had escaped at different times to visit the 

 haunts of her departed race. Through the kindness of my friend Mr. Black- 

 more, I am enabled to send you the accompanying sketches which I have 

 made from his collection. The lance or spear head of jasper is one found by 

 myself. 



" As I know you are much interested in the antiquities of North America, 

 I hope the sketches will not be without interest to you. I must remark in con- 

 clusion that several of the bones are much decayed. An extra amount of 

 work has interrupted the travelling which I had mapped out for myself, and 

 my principal having been seriously Indisposed has. kept me almost a close 

 prisoner, 



" I remain dear Sir, 



" Yours very faithfully 



"Elias Marett." 



ON NORTH ATLANTIC STORMS. 



BY J. L. HtJEDIS. 



Many years ago, when Redfield and Reid were only begin ning their obscr- 

 Tations on storms, I happened to be a passenger on board a sailing ship, bound 

 in the autumn of the year, from England to British North America. Weary 

 with contending against westerly winds, in mid- Atlantic we were clieered by 

 a fine breeze and promising clouds springing up in the S.E., and speculating 

 on keeping the fair wind for some days at the least, when the skipper, a sea- 

 man of experience in those latitudes, chilled our hopes by stating that no 

 reliance could be placed in these easterly winds, which were sure to veer to 



