66 July 1749. 



abouts. However, it came on very well 

 here. 



ABOUT half an hour after feven in the 

 evening we left this pleafant ifland, and an 

 hour after our return the baron de Longueuil 

 received two agreeablepieces of news at once. 

 The firfl was, that his fon, who had been 

 two years in France, was returned ; and 

 th&fecond, that he had brought with him 

 the royal patents for his father, by which 

 he was appointed governor of Montreal, 

 and the country belonging to it. 



THEY make ufe of fans here, which are 

 made of the tails of the wild turkeys. As 

 foon as the birds are (hot, their tails are 

 fpread like fans, and dried, by which means 

 they keep their figure. The ladies and the 

 men of diftinction in town wear thefe fans, 

 when they walk in the flreets, during the 

 intenfenefs of the heat. 



ALL the grafs on the meadows round 

 Montreal, coniifts chiefly of a fpecies of Mea- 

 dow-graft, or the Poa capillaris, Linn. * 

 This is a very flender grafs, which grows 

 very clofe, and fucceeds even on the drieft 

 hills. It is however not rich in foliage; 

 and the flender ftalk is chiefly ufed for hay. 



We 



* Mr. Kalm defcribes it thus : Poa culmo/ubcompreffe, pa- 

 x : cula tenuij/ima t fpiculis triflorismittimis 9 flofculis bafi pubejcen- 

 libus. 



