Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1873-05-03

the Micmacs Of Nova Scotia, profess the
Roman Catholic faith; but thew have
imbibed little of the spirit of Christian
ity. They bring down furs to the set.
Elements on the coast, and exchange
them for ammunition and clothing. In
the use of firearms they are very ex-
pert; but they are frequently compelled,
by scarcity of ammunition, to recur
for support TO their original weapons,
the bow and arrow, and with these they
can kill flying partride at forty yards
distance. Their canoes are made Of
birch bark, and their sledges Of thin
birch board, shod with slips of bone.
The mountaineers draw their own
siedges, as their dogs are but small and
used only for the purpose of hunting.
THE Esou1MAUx.
The Esquimaux Of Labrador live al
most entirely by fishing. They are par
TALLY Christianized and. civilized through
the praiseworthy exertions of Moravian
missionaries. They exchange furs, oil,
and whalebone, for ammunition, guns
and clothing at the European settle
ments. They are mild, hospitable and
honest. They are well provided with a
peculiar breed Of dogs, voracious and
fierce, and SO like wolves that they
might easily be mistaken for these ami
mails In the winter the Esquimaux
travelled with these dogs over the snow
at the rate Of from six to ten miles an
hour; each sledge is drawn by ten or
twelve dogs, yoked two and two, a pair
Of the most sagacious being placed in
| front as leaders, and the whole guided
/ by long whip, without reins, the lash
( extending to tie foremost dogs. Their
buts are, in winter, embarked with turf
and moss, excel ii g small easement Of
( oiled seal-skin at the top. Without any
| fire but lamp, these habitations are as
warm rs an oven. The passionate at
/ attachment of the Esquimaux to their
frozen seas and icy plains is wonderful.
They infinitely prefer their storm-beaten
shores to the gentle waves and cerulean
skies of more temperate regions. 1t is
/ clear they are n totally different race
from the red Indians of America. I The
Esquimaux are stunted IL s ,tue' and
essentially Mongoian in ny iognomy,
having fiattened nose, prominent pro-
file, and copper-colored skin. 1t is re-
markable that the Esquimaux is the
only family common to the Old World
and the New.
SCENERY or LABRADOR.
Bleak and savage are the shores of
Labrador, vet the aspects of nature are
often picturesque and grand, and some
times strangely beautiful. The great
dark cliffs along the coast, beaten ard
torn by storms of centuries. rear their
giant forms that have been SCI lptured by
tempests and nodded by the hands of
frost giants, and hewn into their present
shape by the laundering blows of the
Atlantic's billows. In the summer eve
nings it is grand 10 see their great shad-
ows falling on the surface of the waves,
as the sun is setting, and the ceaseless
music Of ocean is heard as it laves their
jagged sides. But grander still is the
!. sight when the wild Atlantic is lashed
into fury, and, like the onset of an inva-
ding host, the watery battalions charge
: mp the lofty cliffs with desperate fury,
] AS if determined to carry the fortress, and
J fling their spray over the loftiest sum
mitS. Then, what can equal the stern
2 and awful beauty of the ocean when la
den with the ice-argosies; when the huge
: foes are grinding against one another
e and daShing each ether to pieces; and
| the stately icebergs, with their fantastic
| shapes, their glittering pinnacles and
! dazzling white towers, are sailing slowly
q past, carrying i'll their bosom fragment;
| from the Artic mountains to help in the
h erection of a new continent, where now
i the ships are sailing over the submarine
1 banks of Newfoundland.
= On leaving the coast, and vending
/. ones way inland, although there is no
V here the granduer of the pine forest o
$ the fower-clad vale, yet the taperin!
Il dark-green frs have beauty of thei
# own; while MOSES of every hue, wil'
: flower of richest colors, ferns and grass
l. es tall and graceful, diversity the scene
= The lover of the picturesque may reve
>. in the sight of naked rocks, of towering
+ mountains, wood and plain. The grea
!. prolific mother clothes these wildernesse
is with berry bearing plants of all kinds
raspberres, hurtleberries, cramberrie:
partridgeberries, bakeapple-berries, an
clusters of wild currants and gooseber
'r ries. The sportsman finds no lack O
IS game. The curlew hover around in vas
Is tlocks; the wild geese and ducks, grouse
y ployer, partridges, owls, eagles, hawks
;; are abundant. If nobler quarry is desil
u ed. bears, wolves, reindeer, martens, fox
le es can readily be found. The geologist
. as well as the botanist, may tinda fiel
= here in tracing the great Laurentian fol
nations which form the framework O
Labrador.
= A FAST CoMPosIToR--In the Office O
% a Wisconsin journal there is a compost
Or tor who sets type so rapidly (says tn
u; paper) that the friction of his move
ne ments fuses the leaden emblems in hi