the bay of Chebucto, boldly stretched its broad surface within the shore; in an angular direction she beheld the bay, extending itself towards Halifax ; romantic islands scattered on its bosom, which with the rising tide and shadowy sun, over which the dark clouds were passing, appeared to float there, whilst on the opposite coast she beheld trees of every description, whose immense size appeared to stamp them almost coeval with time, and whose many coloured tints, dyed by the beauties of autumn, were finely contrasted by the deep unchanging green of the stately firs rising on all sides in abundance, whilst a grandeur and beauty, surpassing description, even by the pencil of a Claude Lorrain, was diffused over the whole, by the occasional rich glow of the western sky now fading into a faint light, now changed into a deep and solemn gloom.

A general stillness succeeded, which seemed as if it might be felt.

Could a painter have beheld Clara's elegant figure, at this moment, as she bent forward with the lovely and benignant smile of an angel, over the spot where innocence and beauty sat gazing on her with pleasure and wonder, he might have taken her with success for the softened image of Melpomene. Awakened from a pensive musing, by the little girl's moving to re-collect her scattered treasures, and replace them in her Indian basket.

Clara seated herself by the child, and assisting her to arrange them, inquired her name, where she lived, and how she happened to have wandered there alone. The child with a modest blush, but without any embarrasment, in somewhat of a foreign accent, said her name was Ellen; that she had been gathering flowers in the wood, and was

returning home, which was very near. Clara looked round, but saw no appearance of any thing like a human habitation, and asked the child to show her where it was.

Ellen

"Yes, madam," said Elen, and putting on her little bonnet, prepared to lead the way. Clara then inquired if her father and mother were living, and if she had any brothers or sisters. said her father was living, but that her mother, her dear mother was dead, and that she had not any brothers or sisters; that her father had a boat in which he went out a fishing, that he sometimes in the summer took her with him, and that he was now out. "Look, madam," said she, "there is my dear father in his little boat," pointing out the place, but the distance was so great, Clara could scarcely see more than a speck, still less

could she imagine any human being,

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as the child's lively fancy had pourtrayed.

They had now nearly reached the cottage, which, entirely sheltered by its situation, being in a small dingle, was hid from observation. Clara recollected that she must many times have been near it, from the scenery they had passed, which she had often marked, and which was connected with an association of ideas never to be forgotten; but she had not happened to see the cottage, nor any human being that appeared to be an inhabitant of that neighbourhood. Though she recollected having been informed that a few cottages lay scattered in this place, at no great distance from the shore, a narrow pathway which wound round the side of the bill, led them to this sequestered spot; and Clara was much pleased, when the little neat looking white dwelling, which was built of wood, met her

eye; it stood inclosed between two green banks, which were a shelter from the sun in the summer, (there intensely hot); and one of them extending to the North-West, preserved it also from the severity of that piercing (wintry) blast, which blowing over the immense tracts of snow in Canada, is scarcely to be endured at some distance; the back of the cottage was sheltered by tall trees, and a small level plot in front, giving a view of the bay, had been inclosed by a neat green paling: they entered through a wicket gate,

"Which opening with a latch

"Received the harmless pair."

Many wild flowers had been transplanted, and by cultivation had acquired a richer, though not a more beautiful hue. A great variety of aromatic plants also, which, in this wild scene, scent the passing gale with their fragrant odours, had been collected into this