At a later period it has been successfully banished from the
but natural event accelerated its fate. The eruption
g low one of its chief abodes, has contributed

Denmark, and then from those of Scotland.
Orkneys, the Faroes, and St. Kilda. Then, too, a casual

of a submarine volcano on the coast of Iceland, by layin
But worse than all this has been the blow which, on the discovery of America,

e inhabiting the Newfoundland islets, when it was brought suddenly face to
and where the result has been what invariably happens

effectually to its destruction.
came upon the portion of the rac
face with a powerful and hitherto unknown enemy,
when a simple tribe of savages, used only to
with invaders of the highest type of civilization :

The figure in the accompanying Plate is about two thi

the primeval customs of its forefathers, is all at once confronted
‘the place thereof knoweth it no more.’ ”
rds of the natural size.