MRS. WILTON.  “With a few remarks on Lapland, we will quit this part of our quarter of the globe.  Lapland can boast of but few towns.  The people lead wandering lives, and reside greater part of the year in huts buried in the snow; occasionally they have warm weather, that is, for the space of three or four weeks in the year, when the sun has immense power; so that a clergyman residing at Enontekis informed Dr. Clarke that he was able to light his pipe at midnight with a common burning-glass, and that from his church the sun was visible above the horizon at midnight during the few weeks of summer.  But the delights of this long day scarcely compensate for the almost uninterrupted night which overshadows them with its dark mantle for the remainder of the year; one continual winter, when scarcely for three hours during the day can the inhabitants dispense with the use of candles.  The climate, although so extremely frigid, is nevertheless wholesome, and the people are a hardy race.  In Lapland the Aurora Borealis is seen to perfection; the appearance it exhibits at times is beyond description magnificent:  it serves to illuminate their dark skies in the long night of winter; and, although they cannot benefit by it so continually as the inhabitants of Greenland and Iceland, yet they never behold the arch of the glorious Northern Lights spread abroad in the starry heavens but they bless God for the phenomenon which they cannot comprehend, but know full well how to appreciate.  Here in this wintry region George might enjoy himself agreeably to his wishes, for the Laplanders travel in sledges drawn by the swift reindeer; but I fear he would find it difficult to keep his seat, as the sledge is but of narrow dimensions and easily upset, while the animal requires a great deal of management to guide him properly.  What think you, George?  Would you not be like Frank Berkeley or Paul Preston, who fancied it must be so easy and delightful to ride in a pulk or sledge, and found instead, that, from inexperience, their journey was one continued chapter of accidents?”

GEORGE.  “I dare say I should fare as badly at first, but I would not be discouraged by one failure.”

MR. WILTON.  “That is right, my boy!  Perseverance and determination are an extra pair of legs to a traveller in his journey through life.”

CHARLES.  “There appears to be no islands in the White Sea.”

MRS. WILTON.  “There are islands, but they are mostly barren uninhabited rocks.  Archangel, a port on this sea, is famous for the manufacture of linen sheeting.  Now quit we these dreary regions for the bright and enlivening southern climes; and, if all parties are agreeable, we will cast our anchor where we may behold the heights of Caucasus, and picture to ourselves the situation of still more interesting elevations; viz.  Ararat, Lebanon, and Hermon; mountains mentioned in the Sacred Writings, and certainly great points of attraction to Christian travellers in Asiatic Turkey.”