CHARLES.  “Newfoundland is famous for dogs; but I find the most numerous there are not like those we call Newfoundland dogs, which are large handsome animals, for they are comparatively rare.  The most abundant are creatures with lank bodies, thin legs and tail, and a thin tapering snout.  They are very intelligent though, and would beat the Chinese birds in catching fish; for Mr. Jukes, a gentleman who has been to Newfoundland, says of one of these dogs:—­’He sat on a projecting rock beneath a fish-flake, or stage, where the fish are laid to dry, watching the water, which had a depth of six or eight feet, and the bottom of which was white with fish-bones.  On throwing a piece of cod-fish into the water, three or four heavy, clumsy-looking fish, called in Newfoundland “sculpins,” with great heads and mouths, and many spines about them, generally about a foot long, would swim in to catch it.  These he would watch attentively, and the moment one turned his broadside to him, he darted down like a fish-hawk, and seldom came up without the fish in his mouth.  As he caught them, he carried them regularly to a place a few yards off, where he laid them down; and his owner told us that in the summer he would sometimes make a pile of fifty or sixty a day, just at that place.  He never attempted to eat them, but seemed to be fishing purely for his own amusement.  I watched him for about two hours; and when the fish did not come, I observed he once or twice put his right foot in the water, and paddled it about.  This foot was white, and my friend said he did it to “toll” or entice the fish.’  Cunning dog was he not, George?”

GEORGE.  “Yes; he would make his master’s fortune if the fish he caught were worth selling.”

EMMA.  “To get into Baffin’s Bay, we must go through Davis’s Straits, so called from their discoverer, John Davis, who sailed through them in 1585; and following the coast on the north side, we shall pass South-east Bay and Coburg Bay.  In 1818 Captain Ross completed the circumnavigation of this oblong bay.  The middle of it seems everywhere occupied with impenetrable ice, between which and the land is the only passage for ships.”

MRS. WILTON.  “That portion of the bay you have just described washes the shores of Greenland and the Arctic Regions.  Greenland is considered as a peninsula attached to America, wretchedly barren, for no trees grow there.  But God, who made man of the dust, also promised to supply his wants, and most wonderfully is this exemplified with regard to Greenland.  To provide the inhabitants with the means of warming and nourishing their bodies, God causes the sea to drive vast quantities of wood from distant shores, and with thankfulness the poor Greenlanders regularly gather these providential supplies from their own coasts.  Some parts of Greenland are nothing more than huge masses of rocks, intermingled with immense blocks of ice, thus forming at once the image of chaos and winter.”