Between Quebec and Lorette. 155' 



pretty flat, and interfered now *&A then 

 by a clear rivulet. The roads are very 

 good, broad, and lined with ditches oil 

 each fide, in low grounds. Further from 

 the town, the land rifes higher and higher, 

 and coniifts as it were of terraces, Orta 

 above another. This riling ground i$, 

 however, pretty fmooth, chiefly without 

 (tones, and covered with rich mould. Un- 

 der that is the black lime-flate, which is 

 fo common hereabouts, and is divided into 

 fmal-1 Olivers, and corroded by the air. 

 Some of the ftrata were horizontal, others 

 perpendicular ; I have likewife found Ach 

 perpendicular ftrata of lime-ftates iri 'other 

 places, in the neighbourhood of Quebec. 

 All the hills are cultivated ; and feme are 

 adorned with fine churches, [hteW?s^wS 

 corn-fields. The meadows are 'tefhlriionty 

 in the vallies, though forhe were likewife 

 on erriiftencies. Soon after we had a fine 

 profpecft from one of thefe hills. Quebec 

 appeared very plain to 'the eaftward ? %ftd 

 the river St. Lawrence could like wife -Be 

 feen ; further diftant, on the fouth-eaft fide 

 of that rivfer, appears a long chain of Higli 

 mourftairis, running generally parallel-to it, 

 Hl^h manf : miles diftant lfrbm[ i R"13 

 ftflf weft again> W fotoPcHftl^^wfi 

 rifinglands where w(T w%r^ >Me h 



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