#2 Augufi 1749. 



behind and ferves him ; but in the towns, 

 the ladies are more diftinguifhed, and would 

 willingly afTume an equal, if not a fuperior, 

 power to their hufbands. When they go 

 out of doors they wear long cloaks, which 

 cover all their other clothes, and are either 

 grey, brown, or blue. The men fome- 

 times make ufe of them, when they are 

 obliged to go into the rain. The women 

 have the advantage of being in a dejhabille 

 under thefe cloaks, without any body's per- 

 ceiving it. 



WE fometimes faw wind-mills near the 

 farms. They were generally built of (tone, 

 with a roof of boards, which, together with 

 its flyers, could be turned to the wind occa- 

 fionally. 



THE breadth of the river was not always 

 equal to-day ; in the narroweft place, it 

 was about a quarter of an Enghjh mile 

 broad ; in other parts it was near two Eng- 

 lifh miles. The fhore was fometimes high 

 and fteep, and fometimes low, or Hoping. 



AT three o'clock this afternoon we paf- 

 fed by the river, which falls into the river 

 St. Lawrence, and comes from lake Cham~ 

 plain, in the middle of which latter is a 

 large ifland. The yachts which go be- 

 tween Montreal and Quebec, go on the 

 ibuth-eaft fide of this ifland, becaufe it is 



deeper 



