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j becaufe they do not gi^e tar enough 

 to repay the trouble the people are at. 

 They make ufe of the roots alone, which 

 are quite full of refin, and which they dig 

 out of the ground ; and of about two yards 

 of the ftem, juft above the root, laying 

 afide all the reft. They have not yet learnt 

 the art of drawing the refin to one fide of 

 the tree, by peeling oft the bark; at leaft 

 they never take this method. The tar- 

 barrels are but about half the fize of ours. 

 A ton holds forty-fix pots, and fells at pre- 

 fent for twenty-five^n?;^/ at Quebec. The 

 tar is reckoned pretty good. 



THE fand on the (hore of the river St. 

 La f wreJ^ce, confifts in fome places of a kind 

 of pearl-fand. The grains are of quartz, 

 fmall and femidiaphanous. In fome places 

 it confifts of little particles of glimmer ; 

 and there are likewife fpots, covered with 

 the garnet-coloured fand, which I have be- 

 fore defcribed, and which abounds in Canada. 



September the / f th. THE mountains 

 hereabouts were covered with a very thick 

 fog to-day, refembling the fmoak of a char- 

 coal kiln. Many of thefe mountains are very 

 high. During my ftay in Canada , I afked 

 many people, who have travelled much in 

 North-America, whether they ever met 

 with mountains fo high, that the fnow 

 never melts on them in winter j to which 



they 



