times, and nearly in every situation: The grand volume of Nature presents us with proofs of the Divine Philanthropy, written in golden characters; and it is only when we pass them by With brute unconscious gaze, that they cease to have such a soothing effect upon our spirits, as a contemplation of them was intended to produce. Overcome at length with fatigue, and with the constant operation of these conflicting reflections, I retired to my birth, and was speedily rocked to sleep by the gently undulating motion of the vessel. LETTER II. EMBARKATION [—SEA-SICKNESS UNPLEASANT WEATHER DEATH ANTICOSTA ISLAND ISLAND-INTEREST -ISLAND ING MANNERS OF ONE OF THE FEMALE ABORIGINES — ON the 13th of June, about eleven o'clock in the forenoon, we sailed out of Cork Harbour, and, in a short time, found ourselves upon the wide Atlantic, the "sport of surging waves and blustering billows." Scarcely had we time to cast "a longing, lingering look" at the South Western coast of Ireland, before it vanished from our sight and was lost in the immensity of the ocean. а In less than an hour after we weighed anchor, all the passengers became afflicted, as if by some Circean enchantment, with that nauseous and everdreaded disorder, which is, I believe, the inevitable lot of nearly every one who becomes for the first time a sea-faring adventurer. We were distressed almost a fortnight with this unpleasant sickness during which time, not a few of the most zealous advocates of emigration wished most heartily, that they had never quitted their peaceful cottages, to encounter all the dangers and difficulties of a long voyage, and that they had not indulged in the glowing anticipation of future golden harvests, prior to which the privations to be endured were completely overlooked. The nausea renders those who are under its influence exceedingly irritable. If a modern poet had to sing the daring adventures of the agricultural heroes who plough so great a portion of the foaming main, that they may afterwards have an opportunity of ploughing a little patch of this fertile continent,— in the spirit of refinement which characterizes the present age he would omit all mention of this disorder and its unpleasant concomitants. But had the task been committed to father Homer, he would have executed it in a charming manner; and would have conveyed to his readers, in a few bold expressions, nearly as just a description of sea-sick scenery, as the celebrated caricaturist Cruikshanks has represented to spectators, in his humorous print of A Trip to Margate. This disorder seems for a season to dissolve all the tender charities of life;" and you would have been much amused, could you have heard wives reproaching their husbands, husbands their wives, children their parents, and parents their children, all, like good father Adam, desirous of throwing off the sin from their own shoulders. Their awkward endeavours to exculpate themselves would have made even thick-lipped musing Melancholy gather up her face into a smile." After the lapse of a fortnight, however, the whole party was in a state of convalescence, and many were restored to as perfect health as they had previously enjoyed. The weather, for the first eight or ten days of our voyage, was so extremely unpleasant, and the winds so very unfavourable that we made but little progress. After that time, the weather became milder and more agreeable; but the wind continued to blow from the West and North West, during the whole of our passage. On the 27th of July, we anchored before the city of Quebec, after a voyage of 43 days and a half. During this short period, twelve of our party were consigned to a watery grave; and we interred as many more in different islands of the St. Lawrence. All of them were children under fourteen years of age; children who, a few days before this sudden change, were cheerful and healthy, the hope and the delight of their parents. But though these bereavements are most painful to the individuals concerned, yet to the eye of an 1 enlightened reflection how enviable appears the lot of the innocents who are thus suddenly removed in their childhood or infaney! Through the merits of Him, who, in the days of his flesh, said, "Suffer little children to come unto me, for of such is the kingdom of heaven," they become entitled to a heavenly inheritance, without a previous and long endurance of human ills. They have gone to another and a better state of being; have exchanged a life which is short and uncertain, for one which is eternal and unchangeable. They have embarked for a world, in which they will not be called to participate in calamities, or to mar their own happiness, and that of others, by the commission of crimes, but are "as the angels of God, who high in glory dwell." I must confess, that while paying the last sad and solemn rites of our holy religion to the mortal remains of these little ones, I have often been ready to exclaim with the inimitable Hervey, "Highly-favoured probationers! Scarce ❝launched on the troubled waters of life, ere you "have reached the haven of never-ending rest!" Nothing of any particular importance, except the deaths which I have now enumerated, occurred, from the first to the thirtieth day of our voyage; when we struck soundings on the Great Fishing Bank. The next day we got in sight of the Island of Newfoundland, which was the only spot of terra firma we had seen for more than a month. In a few days afterwards we observed the American Continent, which at first appeared to be only an |