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vated lands ly only along the river St, 

 Lawrence, and the other rivers in the 

 country, the environs of towns excepted, 

 round which the country is all cultivated 

 and inhabited within the diftance of twelve 

 or eighteen Englifh miles. The great 

 iflands in the river are likewife inhabited. 



THE fhores of the river now became 

 higher, more oblique and fteep, however 

 they confided chiefly of earth. Now and 

 then fome rivers or great brooks fall into 

 the river St. Lawrence, among which one 

 of the moft confiderable is the Riviere 

 Puante^ which unites on the fouth-eaft fide 

 with the St. Lawrence, about two French 

 miles below Trois Rivieres, and has on its 

 banks, a little way from its mouth, a town 

 called Becancourt which is wholly inhabited 

 by Abenakee Indians, who have been con- 

 verted to the Roman catholic religion, and 

 have Jefuits among them. At a great 

 diftance, on the north- weft fide of the river, 

 we faw a chain of very high mountains, 

 running from north to fouth, elevated above 

 the reft of the country, which is quite flat 

 here without any remarkable hills. 



HERE were feveral lime-kilns along the 

 river ; and the lime-ftone employed in them 

 is broke in the neighbouring high grounds. 

 It is compact and grey, and the lime it yields 

 is prettv white. 



