the ingenious skill which can furnish expedients, even in a region so destitute of resources. It may well teach us to trust in that good Providence which is indeed a present help in trouble. They reached Archangel on the 28th of September 1749. What happy meetings may have been anticipated!--what calamities may have been dreaded during that voyage!--How may it have fared with those who were left? Will they all be there, to greet with a joyful welcome? What if Alexis' wife, worn out by suspense and anxiety, should have sunk into an early grave?--or if one among their children should have died?--or if the three should all have been swept away? The approaching sail had been seen; and the one who for years had clung to a forlorn-hope, was again at the water's edge. Alexis stood on the deck. Affection is quick-sighted; he was instantly seen and known by his wife! All was forgotten--all but that he was there. The distance between them, the waves that separated them, were unheeded! Uttering a wild cry of joy, she rushed forward to clasp him in her arms. She sprang into the water--a little time, and she was extricated. She was insensible when taken up. When she came to herself, she was in her husband's arms!--their children were about them! What tears of joy were shed!--what prayers of thankfulness were offered up! The foregoing narrative, true in every respect, is drawn up by us from documents issued under the authority of the Russian government. It shews, in a convincing manner, that subsistence is by no means impossible for sailors wrecked and icebound within the polar regions. WILD ANIMALS IN CONFINEMENT.