Quebec. igt 



little pieces of the lime-flate. All the 

 lets cut their beds deep into the ground; 

 fo that their fhores are commonly of lirne*- 

 flate. A dark-grey lime-ftone is fometimes 

 found among the ftrata, which, when 

 broke, fmells like ftink-ftone. 



THEY were now building feveral fhips 

 below <%uebec, for the king's account. How- 

 ever, before my departure, an order arrived 

 from France, prohibiting the further build- 

 ing of (hips of war, except thofe which 

 were already on the flocks ; becaufe they 

 had found, that the {hips built of American 

 oak do not laft fo long as thofe of European 

 oak. Near Quebec is found very little oak, 

 and what grows there is not fit for ufe, be- 

 ing very fmall ; therefore they are obliged 

 to fetch their oak timber from thofe parts 

 of Canada which border upon New-Egg* 

 land. But all the North- American oaks 

 have the quality of lading longer, and with- 

 {landing putrefaction better, the further 

 north they grow, and vice verfd. The 

 timber from the confines of New-England 

 is brought in floats or rafts on the rivers 

 near thofe parts, and near the lake St. 

 Pierre y which fall into the great river St. 

 Lawrence. Some oak is likewife brought 

 from the country between Montreal and 

 Fort St. Frederic, or Fort Champlain*, but 



4 it 



