104 vgu 1749- 



cut ; and the city-walls, together with the 

 garden- walls, confift chiefly of them. The 

 roofs of the public buildings are covered 

 with common flates, which are brought 

 from France^ becaufe there are none in Ca- 

 nada. 



THE flated roofs have for fome years with- 

 ftood the changes of air and weather, without 

 fuffering any damage. The private houfes 

 have roofs of boards, which are laid parallel 

 to the fpars, and fometimes to the eaves, or 

 fometimes obliquely. The corners of houfes 

 are made of a grey fmall grained lime-ftone, 

 which has a ftrong fmell, like the Jlink- 

 Jlone*, and the windows are generally en- 

 chafed' with it. This lime-ftone is more 

 ufeful in thofe places than the lime-flates, 

 which always (hiver in the air. The out- 

 fides of the houfes are generally white- 

 wafhed. The windows are placed on the 

 inner fide of the walls ; for they have fome- 

 times double windows in winter. The 

 middle roof has two, or at moft three fpars, 

 covered with boards only. The rooms are 

 warmed in winter by fmall iron ftoves, 

 which are removed in fummer. The floors 

 are very dirty in every houfe, and have all 



the 



* Nitrumfuillum. Linn. Syft. III. p. 86. Lapis fuillus 

 prifmaticus Waller. Mineral, p. 59. a. I. Stink-Jlone^For- 

 V Introd. to Mineralogy, p. 40. 



