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colour and fpecies, with the European ones. 

 Otters* are faid to be very abundant in 

 Canada. 



Seal-Jkins are here made ufe of to cover 

 boxes and trunks, and they often make 

 portmantles of them in Canada. The 

 common people had their tobacco-pouches 

 made of the fame fkins. The feals here 

 are entirely the fame with the Swedifh or 

 European one, which are grey with black 

 fpots. They are faid to be plentiful in the 

 mouth of the river St. Laurence, below 

 Quebec, and go up that river as far as its 

 water is fait. They have not been found 

 in any of the great lakes of Canada. The 

 French call them Loups marms. * 



THE French, in their colonies, fpend 

 much more time in prayer and external 

 worship, than the Englifo, and Dutch fet- 

 tlers in the Britijh colonies. The latter 

 have neither morning nor evening prayer in 

 their (hips and yachts, and no difference is 

 made between Sunday and other days. They 

 never, or very feldom, fay grace at dinner. 

 Dn the contrary, the French here have 

 prayers every morning and night on board 

 their Clipping, and on Sundays they 

 pray more than commonly : they regularly 

 fay grace at their meals ; and every one of 



* Sea Wolves. 



them 



