Between Trois Rivieres and Quebec. 9 



pearance of the faores, was the fame as 

 yefterday j they were high, pretty fteep, and 

 quite perpendicular; and confided of the 

 black flate before defcribed. The country 

 at the top was a plain without eminences, 

 and clofely inhabited along the river, for 

 about the (pace of an Englifo mile and a 

 half in-land. Here are no iflands in this 

 part of the river, but feveral ftony places, 

 perceptible at low water only, which have 

 feveral times proved fatal to travellers. The 

 breadth of the river varies ; in fome parts 

 it was a little more than three quarters of a 

 mile, in others half a mile, and in fome 

 above two miles. The inhabitants made 

 ufe of the fame method of catching eels 

 along the (bores here, as that which 1 have 

 juft before mentioned. In many places 

 they make ufe of nets made of ofiers inftead 

 of the hedge. 



BUGS (Cimex leclularius) abound inCanada; 

 and I met with them in every place where I 

 lodged, both in the towns and country, and 

 the people know of no other re/nedy for 

 them than patience. 



THE Crickets (Gryllus domejlicus] are alfo 

 abundant in Canada* efpecially in the coun- 

 try, where thefe difagreeable guefts lodge 

 in thechimnies^ nor are they uncommon 

 in the towns. They flay here both fummer 



aid 



