Montmorenck 



in order to build houfes of it, pave floors 

 with it, and make ftair-cafes of it. Great 

 quantities of it are fent to Quebec. It isre-r. 

 markable, that there are petrefadlions in this 

 ftone, but never any in the black lime- 

 Hates. 



THE women dye their woollen yarn yel- 

 low with feeds of gale,* which is called 

 poivrier here, and grows abundant in wet 

 places. 



THIS evening, M. Gaulthler and I went 

 to fee the water-fall at Montmorenci. The 

 country near the river is high and level, 

 and laid out into meadows. Above them 

 the high and fteep hills begin, which are 

 covered with a cfuft of mould, and turned 

 into corn-fields. In forne very fteep places, 

 and near the rivulets, the hills confift of 

 mere black lime-flate, which is often crum* 

 bled into fmall pieces, like earth. All the 

 fields below the hills are full of fuch pieces 

 of lime-iUie". When fome of t-he larger 

 pieces are 4 broken, they fmell like ftinfe- 

 ftone. In fome more elevated places, the 

 earth conlifts of a pale red colour ; and the 

 lime-flates' are likewife reddiih. 



THE V^ter- tali near Montmorenci is one 

 of the highcft I ever law. It is in a rivef 



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 * Mjrica gale. Linn. 



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