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burn train-oil of porpefies, which is the 

 common oil here. Where they have none 

 of it, they fupply its place with train-oil 

 of feals. 



September the ift. THERE was a woman 

 with child in this village, who was now 

 in the fifty-ninth year of her age. She had 

 not had the catamenia during eighteen 

 years. In the year 1748, fhe got the 

 fmall-pox, and now (lie was very big. She 

 faid (he was very well, and could feel the 

 motions of the foetus. She looked very 

 well, and had her hufband alive. This 

 being an uncommon cafe, {he was brought 

 to the royal phyfician, M. Gaulthier, who 

 accompanied us on this journey. 



AT half an hour after feven this morn- 

 ing we went down the river. The coun- 

 try near "Terre d ' JLboitlement is high, and 

 confifts of hills of a loofe mould, which ly 

 in three or four rows above each other, and 

 are all well cultivated, and moftly turned 

 into corn-fields ; though there are likewife 

 meadows and paftures. 



THE great earthquake which happened 

 in Canada^ in February* 1663, and which 

 is mentioned by Gharle r ooix *, has done 

 confiderable damage to this place. Many 



* See his H'jloire de la Ncuvelle F> a^ce, Tom. If, p. m. 



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hills 



