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the fir with leaves which have a filvery 

 underfide.* We found the foil which we 

 pa{Ted over to day, very fine and rich, and 

 when the woods will be cleared and the 

 ground cultivated, it will probably prove 

 very fertile. There are no rocks, and hardly 

 any ftones near the road. 



ABOUT four French miles from fort St* 

 John, the country makes quite another 

 appearance. It is all cultivated, and a con- 

 tinual variety of fields with excellent wheat, 

 peafe, and oats, prefented itfelf to our view; 

 but we faw no other kinds of corn. The 

 farms flood fcattered, and each of them 

 was furrounded by its corn fields, and mea- 

 dows; the houfes are built of wood and 

 very fmall. Inftead of mofs, which can- 

 not be got here, they employ clay for (lop- 

 ping up the crevices in the walls. The 

 roofs are made very much Hoping, and 

 covered with ftraw. The foil is good, fiat, 

 and divided by feveral rivulets j and only 

 in a few places there are fome little hills. 

 The profpecl: is very fine from this part of 

 the road, and as far as I could fee the 

 country, it was cultivated -, all the fields 

 were covered with corn, and they generally 

 ufe fumrner-wheat here. The ground is 



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