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ssertsits share in the general estimate of the coon-v ry. Instead of Prince Edward Island having no ob- -cts ofnatural history of any pPrticular interest. it 4 full to overflowing; and were t iere a full collection : ade, many a. man now too wise to believe anything ew, would open his mouth with gaping astonishment s the humanizing wonder taught him something he idn’t know before“

The day when CAnmoo and Moose deer ranged he forest, and planted their tracks upon the unshorn nterval pastures of Prince Edward Island might long ince have become a paragraph of the vestiges of { reation, or passed from the memory, but that . here are occasionally found palmated horns; and here was a time when the Micmac’s flinted arrow‘ atisfied the wants of the wigwam from-their dainty i aunches, made moccasins from- their soft‘skin, and drew out their tough sinews- for the millinery of the squaw. Now this-poor degraded remnant of a once happy and hardy race ofIndians are following fast in the wake ofthe exterminated deer;and,though able by .: roving industry and a pliant ingenuity, to substitute he priced diet of civilization for the free-got-e‘ild 3 eat ofthe w-ilderness,,yet as year after year passes: »: way, so-these poor creatures-drop one after another ; prey to the white encroachment, and victims-to-the : atural laws of colonizing progression. A: small‘ sland, itself but large enough for atwhite man’s farm, '- ow wears away fromunder the feet of. this obscure emnant, and soon the home of their ancestors will be but the burial ground of this section ofthe tribe, and- the place that fed, and warmed, and clothed, and sheltered the wary r.ed hunter, will open its yawning mouth for the one micmac- who shall longest survive. ' he feet that trod the war dance, the arms that raised the spear, the group that sat‘ in, council—all, all, will be forgotten, and' the very ground they sat upon will mingle,dust to dust, with their proud forms, and their place will know them no more for ever.

The BLACK BEAR is not yet extinct in Prince Ed- Ward Island, but the few that remain seem to know