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modern dicoveries in the South Seas, which have been o accurately reported by that celebrated navigator, Captain Cook, have, with a new track for peculation, opened a new field for obervation; and the productions of thee iles have been sought after with as much curioity and impatience by ome, as a buried vae from Herculaneum, or the remains of the Capitol by others. Under this peruaion of the pleaure of novelty, we preent our readers with a portrait of an Otaheitean Dog; which, as an animal of infinite importance, as an article of luxury with thee people, may deerve ome notice from us.

The Otaheite Dog is about the ize of our large paniels, and nearly reembles them in appearance; the head is rather longer and deeper, or flatter perpendicularly; the ears are erect like the wolf's; the limbs appear rather larger; the colour, for the mot part, white, with lively brown pots or blotches.

The etimation of things in general depend much upon their abundance or carcity; and with an Otaheitean, whoe quadrupeds are but two, it will not excite much urprie, that thee are attended to with ome anxiety, particularly o, when the pleaure of the palate is concerned; this is an influence to which the mot avage nations pay repect.

To give ome idea of the importance of a dog in the South Seas, we hall preent the report of Captain Cook on this particular, as given in his firt voyage: "We all agreed that a South Sea Dog was little inferior to an Englih lamb; this excellence is probably owing to their being kept up, and fed wholly upon vegetables." Thus much as evidence of their delicacy; the manner of cooking this dainty hall cloe our account. Of one preented to the Captain, we read, "the dog was killed by holding the hands cloe over his mouth and noe; an operation which continued about a quarter of an hour: while this was doing, a hole was made in the ground about a foot deep, in which a fire was kindled, and ome mall tones placed in layers, alternately with the wood, to heat; the dog was then inged by holding him over the fire, and, by craping him with a hell, the hair taken off as clean as if he had been calded in hot water; he was then cut up with the ame intrument, and his entrails, being taken out, were ent to the ea, where, being carefully wahed, they were put into cocoa-nut hells, with what blood had come from the body. When the hole was ufficiently heated, the fire was taken out, and ome of the tones, which were not o hot as to dicolour any thing that they touched, being placed at the bottom, were covered with green leaves; the dog, with the entrails, was then placed upon the leaves, and other leaves being placed upon them, the whole was covered with the ret of the hot tones, and the mouth of the hole cloe topped with mould; in omewhat les than four hours it was again opened, and the dog was taken out excellently baked, and we all agreed that he made a very good dih."

"The dogs which are here bred to be eaten tate no animal food, but are kept wholly upon bread-fruit, cocoa-nuts, yams, and other vegetables of the like kind."