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THE BLACK-POLL WOOD-WARBLER. 
The Strawberry Tree. 
Euonymus Americanus, Willd ., Sp. PL, vol. i. p. 1132. Pursch, FI. Amcr., vol. i.p. 1G& 
This beautiful shrub, which attainsa height of five or six feet, is common 
in most parts of the United States, growing in low or swampy ground, and 
in shady places, is characterized by having the branches quadrangular, the 
leaves subsessile, elliptico-lanceolate, acute, and serrate. The fruit is large, 
round, tuberculate, of a scarlet colour, and very ornamental. 
THE BLACK - POLL WOOD - WARBLER. 
Sylvicola striata, Lath . 
PLATE LXX VIII.— Male axd Female. 
No sooner had the Ripley come to an anchor in the curious harbour of 
Labrador, known by the name of Little Macatina, than my part}' and myself 
sought the shore ; — but before I proceed, let me describe this singular place. 
It was the middle of July, the weather was mild and pleasant, our vessel 
made her way under a smart breeze through a very narrow passage, beyond 
which we found ourselves in a small circular basin of water, having an extent 
.of seven or eight acres. It was so surrounded by high, abrupt, and rugged 
rocks, that, as I glanced around, I could find no apter comparison for our 
situation than that of a nut-shell in the bottom of a basin. The dark shadows 
that overspread the waters, and the mournful silence of the surrounding 
desert, sombred our otherwise glad feelings into a state of awe. The scenery 
was grand and melancholy. On one side, hung over our heads, in stupendous 
masses, a rock several hundred feet high, the fissures of which might to some 
have looked like the mouths of some huge undefined monster. Here and 
there a few dwarf-pines were stuck as if by magic to this enormous mass of 
granite ; in a gap of the cliff the brood of a pair of grim Ravens shrunk from 
our sight, and the Gulls, one after another, began to wend their way over- 
head towards the middle of the quiet pool, as the furling of the sails was 
accompanied by the glad cries of the sailors. The remarkable land-beacons 
erected in that country to guide vessels into the harbour, looked like so many 
figures of gigantic stature formed from the large blocks that lay on every hill 
around. A low valley, in which meandered a rivulet, opened at a distance 
