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end of the lake, the river went Into its 

 proper bounds again, being not above a 

 mile and a half broad, and afterwards it 

 grows ftill narrower. From the end of 

 Lake St. Pierre to Trots Rivieres , they 

 reckon three French miles, and about eleven 

 o'clock in the morning we arrived at the 

 latterplace, where we attended divinefervice. 

 , Trois Rivieres, is a little market town, 

 which had the appearance of a large village; 

 it is however reckoned among the threegreat 

 towns of Canada, which are Quebec, Mon- 

 treal, and Trots River es. It is faid to ly in 

 the middle between the two firft, and 

 thirty French miles diftant from each. 

 The town is built on the north fide of the 

 river St. Lawrence, on a flat, elevated fand, 

 and its fituation is very pleafant. On one 

 fide the river paflds by, which is here an 

 Eng/ijh mile and a half broad. On the 

 other fide, are fine corn-fields, though th& 

 foil is very much mixed with fand. In the 

 town are two churches of ftone, a nunnery, 

 and a houfe for the friars of the order of St. 

 Francis. This town is likewife the feat of 

 the third governor in Canada, whofe houfe 

 is likewife of ftone. Moft of the other houfes 

 are of timber a fingle ftory high, tolerably 

 well built, and ftand very much afunder ; and 

 the ftreets are crooked. The fhore here 

 F 3 coniifts 



