lasted during the two winters the Expedition remained on these frozen shores.

The natives evidently paid some regard to dress, for, when they were making their first visit to the ships, the parties appearing borrowed habiliments from those of the tribe whose wardrobes were finer than their own, and who, of course, remained in their snow huts while their friends were parading in their gayest suits.

With all their apparent clownishness, the Esquimaux are not destitute of ingenuity. We have already related several instances of this; but the chefd'œuvre of their talents, and the most remarkable examples of their skill in the Fine Arts, form the subjects of the two annexed wood engravings: the drawings are taken from native models.

These are curiously made of skins, the same as the Esquimaux' own clothing, partly with the hairy side outwards and partly inwards. The man's dress consists of a coat, having the fur inside, with a hood over the head, and coming close round the chin. In front it fits the body closely round the waist like a vest, but descends over the hips behind in a tail. The seams are down the sides, under the arms, and it appears, as if to get into this garb, the wearer must push his head and body up into it. Round the cuffs, and all the lower parts of the garment, is a white fur trimming, of the most exquisite fashion. Mittens cover the hands. The breeches are loose, and descend below the knee, where two rows of elegant trimming are also sewed on. The rough side of this part of the dress is outward. Boots, fitting the leg, complete the male equipment; and so well is this figure formed, that it balances itself, and can nearly stand alone.

The female is still more grotesque. Her upper garment has the fur side out; and from the capote, which comes round the face, and leaves only a little of it exposed, two long hairy appendages descend, covering two love-locks of her own black hair like queues, only not so stiff. The vest in front of this squab little personage falls into a stomacher point. But the oddest portion of her equipment is the boots, which come up much higher than any fisherman's, and are nearly as much in circumference as her body. The fur is inside, as also in her mittens and trowsers. We despair, however, of conveying a perfect idea of these droll performances, which must be seen to afford a proper notion of Esquimaux art and ingenuity. We have only to add, that their smell is not the most delicate; but this accidental quality of the ill-dressed skins may not be inappropriate to the general likeness. Our prints are about half the size of the figures, which they represent very accurately. No features are given.

The magnificent size of the lady's boots will not escape the eye of the slightest judge of portraiture and costume. In fact, these are the most essential parts of the Esquimaux' dress: they are their pockets, their tool-boxes, their provision cupboards: Hudibras's holster was nothing to them. This will be allowed, when we state, that one day a lady of the tribe, enamoured of a wash-hand bason, took the liberty of appropriating it secretly to herself; but, unluckily for her, the theft was discovered, and she was turned over for search. Proh pudor! the basoń was found concealed in one of her boots!

Another circumstance has just come to our knowledge, so much to the credit of these northern wanderers, that with it we shall conclude this brief sketch. Some of their new acquaintance having travelled to a distance from the vessels, being unable to return, and their feet being affected by the frost, the natives removed their clothing, and put them to their naked bosoms, till the natural warmth was gradually restored;-a proof that all the intensity of these hyperborean regions had not congealed 'the milk of human kindness.'

There are two books laid before us to study, to prevent our falling into error: first, the volume of the SCRIPTURES, which reveal the will of God; then the volume of the Creatures, which express his power: the latter of which is a key to the former, opening not only our intellect, to conceive the genuine sense of the Scriptures, which is to be drawn out by the general rules of reason and laws of speech; but, besides that, unlocking our faith also, to enter into a serious meditation of the Omnipotence of God, the characters whereof are chiefly signed and engraven on his works.—BACON.

Walk out beneath the roseate skies,
Eye, ear, and heart awake;

List to the melodies that rise

From tree, from bush, and brake.

Each fluttering leaf, each murmuring spring,
The great I AM doth own;
To HIM the soaring sky-larks sing,

In music's sweetest tone.

Canst thou not sing! O! leave thy cares
And follies; go thy way!

And morning's praises, morning's prayers,
Go with thee through the day!

Read NATURE; Nature is a friend to truth;
Nature is Christian, preaches to mankind ;
And bids dead matter aid us in our creed.

B. BARTON.

YOUNG.

'Tis most apparent, that the succession of things upon the face of the earth is purely the result and effect of the vicissitude of seasons; and is as constant and certain as is the cause of that vicissitude, the Sun's declination: so certain, that, were a man kept for some time blindfold, in such manner that he could have no notice how the year passed on, and were at length turned forth into the next field or garden, he would not need any other almanack to inform him what season of the year it then was.-woodward.