this entervicw. As foon as the governor 

 general came in, and was feated in order 

 to fpeak with them, the Mickmacks fat 

 down on the ground, like Laplanders, but 

 the other Indians took chairs. 



THERE is no printing-prefs in Canada^ 

 tho' there formerly was one : but all books 

 are brought from France, and all the orders 

 made in the country are written, which 

 extends even to the paper-currency. They 

 pretend that the prefs is not yet intro- 

 duced here, left it ihould be the means of 

 propagating libels againft the government^ 

 and religion. But the true reafon feems 

 to ly in the poornefs of the country, as np 

 printer could put off a fufficient number 

 pf books for his fubfiftence 3 and another 

 reafon may be, that France may have the 

 profit arifing from the exportation of books 

 hither. 



THE meals here are in many refpecSs 

 Different from thofe in the Englifh pro- 

 vinces. This perhaps depends upon the 

 Difference of cuftom, tafte, and religion, 

 Between the two nations. They eat three 

 meal a day, viz. breakfaft, dinner, and 

 (upper. They breakfaft commonly be- 

 tween feven and eight. For the French 

 liere rife very early, and the governor- 

 general pan be ipoke to at feyen o'clock, 



which 



