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continuation of my journey, for the year 

 1750*, I (hall find an opportunity of fpeak^ 

 ing of two other remarkable curiofities, 

 Our Swedijh Mr. George Weftmann^ A. M, 

 has clearly, and circumftantially {hewn, 

 that our Scandinavians > chiefly the northern 

 ones, long before Columbus's time, have 

 undertaken voyages to North-America ; fee 

 his diflertation on that fubjecl, which he 

 read at Aba in 1747, for obtaining his de-> 

 gree. 



Auguji the 8th, THIS morning I vifit-. 

 ed the largeft nunnery in Quebec. Men 

 are prohibited from vifiting under very 

 heavy punifhments ; except in fome rooms, 

 divided by iron rails, where the men and 

 women, that do not belong to the convent, 

 fland without, and the nuns within the 

 rails, and converfe with each other. But 

 to encreafe the many favours which the 

 French nation heaped upon me, as a S-wede, 

 the governor-general got the biihop's leave 

 for me to enter the convent, and fee its 

 conflrudion. The bifhop alone has the 

 power of granting this favour, but he does 

 it very fparingly. The royal phyfician, 

 and a furgeon, are however at liberty to 

 go in as often as they think proper, Mr, 



* THIS part has not yet been publifhed. 



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