Between Forts Anne and St. Frederic. 3 1 5 



jnoft numerous. The trees ftand at fome 

 jdiftance from each other ; and the foil in 

 which they grow is extremely rich. 



After v/e had walked about a Swedi/b 

 mile, or fix Fnglifh miles, we came to the 

 place where the fix Frenchmen had left 

 their bark boats, of which we took one, and 

 rowed down the river, which Was now be-: 

 tween nineteen andtwenty yards broad. The, 

 ground on both fides was very fmooth, and, 

 not very high. Sometimes we found a hill 

 confifting of grey quartz, mixed with fmall 

 fine grains of grey fpar. We like wife -ob-? 

 ferved black ftripes in it ; but they were? 

 fmall, that I could not determine whe- 

 ther they were of glimmer, or of another 

 kind of ftone. The hills were frequently 

 divided into ftrata, lying one above another, 

 of the thicknefs of five inches. The ftrata 

 went from north to fouth ; and were not 

 quite horizontal, but dipping to the north. 

 As we went further on, we faw high and 

 fteep hills on the river-fide, partly covered 

 with trees ; but in other parts, the banks 

 con fift. of a fwampy turf ground, which 

 gave way when it was walked upon, and 

 had fome fimilarity to the fides of. our 

 marfhes, which my countrymen . are. now 

 about to drain. In {hofe parts where the 

 ground was low and flat* we did riot fee any 



flones 



