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provifions, and other necefTaries, but are 

 likewife drawn by them themfelves, in lit- 

 tle fledges. 



Auguft the 25th. THE high hills, to 

 the welt of the town, abound with fprings. 

 Thefe hills confift of the black lime-flate, 

 before mentioned, and are pretty fteep, fo 

 that it is difficult to get to the top. Their 

 perpendicular height is about twenty or 

 four and twenty yards. Their fummits 

 are deftitute of trees, and covered with a 

 thin cruft of earth, lying on the lime-flates, 

 and are employed for corn-fields, or paf- 

 tures. It feems inconceivable therefore, 

 from whence thefe naked hills could take 

 fo many running fprings, which in fome 

 places gufh out of the hills, like torrents. 

 Have thefe hills the quality of attracting 

 the water out of the air in the day time, 

 or at night ? Or are the lime-flates more 

 apt to it, than others ? 



ALL the horfes in Canada are ftrong, 

 well made, fwift, as tall as the horfes of 

 our cavalry, and of a breed imported from 

 France. The inhabitants have the cuftom 

 of docking the tails of their horfes, which 

 is rather hard upon them here, as they 

 cannot defend themfelves againft the nu- 

 merous fwarms of gnats, gad-flies, and 

 horle-flies. They put the horfes one be- 

 fore 



