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vers in the air. The walls of the' houfes 

 here are entirely made of this flate ; and 

 likewife the chimnies, thofe places except- 

 ed, which are expofed to the greateft fire, 

 where they place pieces of grey rock-ftone, 

 mixed with a deal of glimmer. The 

 mountains near Petite Riviere confift 

 merely of a grey rock-ftone, which is en- 

 tirely the fame with that which I defcrib- 

 ed near the lead-mines of bay St. Paul. 

 The foot of thefe mountains confirts of one 

 of the lime-Hate kinds. A great part of 

 the Canada mountains of grey rock-ftone 

 ftand on a kind of (late, in the fame man- 

 ner as the grey rocks of Weft -Gothland in 

 Sweden. 



September the 6th. THEY catch eels 

 and porpefles here, at a certain feafon of 

 the year, viz. at the end of September^ and 

 during the whole month of Oftober. The 

 eels come up the river at that time, and 

 are caught in the manner I have before 

 defcribed. They are followed by the por- 

 pefles, which feed upon them. The greater 

 the quantity of eels is, the greater is like- 

 wife the number of porpefles, which are 

 caught in the following manner. When 

 the tide ebbs in the river, the porpefles 

 commonly go down along the fides of the 

 river, catching the eels which they find 

 4 there,- 



