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been found, that the French wheat and 

 rye dies here in winter, if it be fown in 

 autumn. Dr. Sarrazm has therefore (as 

 I was told by the eldeft of the two Jefuits 

 here) got a fmall quantity of wheat and 

 rye, of the winter-corn fort from Sweden. 

 It was fown in autumn, not hurt by the 

 winter, and bore fine corn. The ears 

 were not fo large as thofe of the Canada 

 corn, but weighed near twice as much, 

 and gave a greater quantity of finer flour, 

 than that fummer-corn. Nobody could 

 tell me, why the experiments have not 

 been continued. They cannot, I am told, 

 bake fuch white bread here, of the fum- 

 mer-corn, as they can in France, of their 

 winter-wheat. Many people have affured 

 me, that all the fummer-corn, now em- 

 ployed here, came from Sweden, or Nor- 

 way : for the French, on their arrival, 

 found the winters in Canada too fevere for 

 the French winter-corn, and their fummer- 

 corn did not always ripen, on account of 

 the fhortnefs of fummer. Therefore they 

 began to look upon Canada, as little better 

 than an ufelefs country, where nobody 

 could live; till they fell upon the expe- 

 dient of getting their fummer-corn from 

 the moft northern parts of Europe, which 

 has fucceeded very well, 



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