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gnats as our common Swedijh ones, being 

 only fomewhatlefsthan the North- American 

 gnats all are. Near Fort St. Jean, I have 

 likewife feen gnats which were the fame 

 with ours, but they were fomewhat bigger, 

 almofl of the fize of our crane-flies*. 

 Thofe which are here, are beyond meafure 

 blood-thirfty. However, I comforted my- 

 felf, becaufe the time of their difappearance 

 was near at hand. 



THIS afternoon we went ftill lower down 

 the river St. Lawrence, to a place, where, 

 we were told, there were filver or lead 

 mines. Somewhat below bay St. Paul, 

 we paffed a neck of land, which coniifts 

 entirely of a grey, pretty compact lime- 

 fione, lying in dipping, and almcft perpen- 

 dicular flrata. It feems to be merely a va- 

 riety of the black lime-flates. The flrata 

 dip to the fouth-eaft, s ^d baflet out to the 

 north-weft. The thicknefs of each is from 

 ten to fifteen inches. When the flone is 

 broken, it has a ftrong fmel), like ftink- 

 ftone. We kept, as before, to the weftern 

 fhore of the river, which confifts of nothing 

 but fteep mountains and rocks. The river 

 is not above three French miles broad here. 

 Now and then we could fee ftripes in the 



f Tipula bortorum. Linn, 



rock, 

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