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I FOUND fand of three kinds upon the 

 fhore -, one is a clear coarie fand, confiding 

 of angulated grains of quartz, and is very 

 common on the hore ; the other is a fine 

 black fand, which I have likewife found 

 in abundance on the fhores of lake Cham- 

 plain, * and which is common all over Ca- 

 nada, Almoft every grain of it is attraded 

 by the magnet. Befides this, there is a 

 granet coloured fand-f-, which is likewife 

 very fine. This may owe its origin to the 

 granet coloured grains of fand, which are 

 to be found in all the {tones and mountains 

 here near the more. The fand may have 

 arifen from the crumbled pieces of fome 

 {tones, or the (tones may have been com- 

 pofed of it. I have found both this and the 

 black fand on the mores, in feveral parts of 

 this journey ; but the black fand was always 

 the mod plentiful. 



Auguftfat 3ift. ALL the high hills in 

 the neighbourhood fent up a fmoke this 

 morning, as from a charcoal- kiln. 



GNATS are innumerable here ; and as 

 foon as one looks out of doors, they imme- 

 diately attack him j and they are {till worfe 

 in the woods. They are exactly the fame 



* See p. 24. of this volume. 

 f See p. 24. of this volume. 



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