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tared, that this flat ground was formerly 

 part of the bottom of the river, and formed 

 itfelf, either by a decreafe of water in the 

 river, or by an encreafe of earth, which 

 was carried upon it from the continent by 

 the brooks, or thrown on it by ftorms. A 

 great part of the plants, which are to be met 

 with here, are likewife marine -, fuch as 

 glafs-wort, fea milk-wort, and fea-fide 

 peafe-f-. But when I have afked the inhabi- 

 tants, whether they find Ihells in the 

 ground by digging for Wells, they always 

 anfwered in the? negative. 1 received 

 the fame anfwer from thofe who live in the 

 low fields directly north of l^uebec, and all 

 agreed, that they never found any thing by 

 digging, but different kinds of earth and 

 fand. 



IT is remarkable, that there is generally 

 a different wind in the bay from that in the 

 river, which arifes from the high mountains, 

 covered with tall woods, with which it is 

 furrounded on every fide but one. For ex- 

 ample, when the wind comes from the 

 river, it ftrikes againftone of the mountains 

 at the entrance of the bay, it is reflected, 

 and confequently takes a direction quite 

 different from what it had before. 



-j- Salicornta, Glaux, Pifym maritimutn. 



I FOUND 



