Denmark, and then from those of Scotland. At a later period it has been successfully banished from the 
Orkneys, the Faroes, and St. Kllda. Then, too, a casual but natural event accelerated its fate. The eruption 
of a submarine volcano on the coast of Iceland, by laying low one of its chief abodes, has contributed 
effectually to its destruction. But worse than all this has been the blow which, on the discovery of America, 
came upon the portion of the race inhabiting the Newfoudland islets, when it was brought suddenly face to 
face with a powerful and hitherto unknown enemy, and where the result has been what invariably happens 
when a simple tribe of savages, used only to the primeval customs of its forefathers, is all at once confronted 
with invaders of the highest type of civilization : ‘ the place thereof knoweth it no more.’ ” 
The figure in the accompanying Plate is about two thirds of the natural size. 
