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the walls are flopped up with clay. There 

 are fome little buildings of ftone, chiefly 

 of the black lime-ftone, or of pieces of 

 rock-done, in which latter the enchafe- 

 ment of the doors and windows was made 

 of the black lime-ftone. In the midft of 

 the village is a pretty church of ftone, with 

 a fteeple at the weft end of it, furnifhed 

 with bells. Before the door is a crofs, to- 

 gether with ladders, tongs, hammers, nails, 

 &c. which are to represent all the inftru- 

 ments made ufe of at the crucifixion of our 

 Saviour, and perhaps many others befides 

 them. The village is furrounded with 

 palifades, from four yards to five high, put 

 up formerly as a barrier againft the in- 

 curfions of the Indians. Without thefe 

 palifades are feveral little kitchen and plea- 

 lure gardens, but very few fruit-trees in 

 them. The rifing grounds along the river, 

 are very inconfiderable here. In this place 

 there was a prieft, and a captain, who 

 aflumed the name of governor. The corn- 

 fields round the place are extenfive, and 

 fown with fummer- wheat ; but rye, barley 

 and maize are never feen. To the fouth- 

 weft of this place is a great fall in the 

 river St. Lawrence, and the noife which it 

 caufes, may be plainly heard here. When 

 the water in fpring encreafes in the river, 

 on 



