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put into feveral pieces of their work ; and 

 air, fun, or water feldom change this colour. 

 The French women in Canada fometimes 

 dye their clothes red with thefc roots, which 

 are but fmall, like thofe of Galium luteum, 

 or yellow bedftraw. 



THE horfes are left out of doors during 

 the winter, and find their food in the woods, 

 living upon nothing but dry plants, which 

 are very abundant ; however they do not 

 fall off by this food, but look very fine and 

 plump in fpring. 



July the gth. THE fkeleton of a whale 

 was found fome French miles from Quebec, 

 and one French mile from the river St. 

 Laurence, in a place where no flowing wa- 

 ter comes to at prefent. This fkeleton has 

 been of a very confiderable fize, and the 

 governor of the fort faid, he had fpoke with 

 feveral people who had feen it. 



July the loth. THE boats which are 

 here made ufe of, are of three kinds. 

 i. Bark-boats, made of the bark of trees, 

 and of ribs of wood. 2. Canoes, confuting 

 of a fingle piece of wood, hollowed out, 

 which I have already deicribed before *. 

 They are here made of the white fir, and 

 of different fizes. They are not brought 



* See Vol. II. 



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