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Hares are likewife faid to be plentiful 

 near Hudforis Bay, and they are abundant 

 even in Canada , where I have often feen, 

 and found them perfectly correfponding 

 with our Sivedijh hares. In fummer they 

 have a brownifh grey, and in winter a fnovvy 

 white colour, as with us *. 



MECHANics,fuchasarchitedure,cabinet- 

 work, turning, and the like, were not yet 

 fo forward here as they ought to be; and 

 the Englifh, in that particular, out do the 

 French. The chief caufe of this is, that 

 fcarce any other people than difmiffed fol- 

 diers come to fettle here, who have not 

 had any opportunity of learning a mecha- 

 nical trade, but have fometimes acciden- 

 tally, and through neceffity been obliged 

 to it, There are however fome, who have 

 a good notion of mechanics, and I faw a 

 perfon here, who made very good clocks, 

 and watches, though he had had but very 

 little inftrudtion. 



July the ayth. THE common houfe- 

 flies have but been obferved in this country 

 about one hundred and fifty years ago, as I 

 have been allured by feveral perfons in this 

 town, and in Quebec. All the Indians aflert 

 the fame thing, and are of opinion that the 



com- 



* See a figure of this hare in its white Hate, in the Suppl. 

 to $r. Zool. jplate XL VII. f. i. F. 



