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The Indians have employed this ftone for 

 the fame purpofes for feveral ages part, and 

 have taught it the Europeans. The heads 

 of the tobacco-pipes are naturally of a pale 

 grey colour ; but they are blackened whilfl 

 they are quite new, to make them look 

 better. They cover the head all over with 

 greafe, and hold it over a burning candle, or 

 any other fire, by which means it gets a 

 good black colour, which is encreafed by 

 frequent ufe. The tubes of the pipes are 

 always made of wood-f-. 



THERE are no coals near this fall, or in 

 the fleep hills clofe to it. However, the 

 people in the neighbouring village (hewed 

 me a piece of coal, which, they faid, they 

 had found on one of the hills about the 

 fall. 



WE arrived at Quebec very late at night. 



September the 8th. INTERMITTING fe- 

 vers of all kinds are very fare at Quebec, as 

 Mr. Gaulthier affirms. On the contrary, 



f All over Poland, RuJ/ta, Turfy, and Tartary, they fmoke 

 out of pipes made of a kind of ftone-marle, to which they 

 fix long wooden tubes ; for which latter purpofe, they com- 

 monly employ the young fhoots of the various kinds of ffi- 

 raa, which have a kind of pith eafily to be thruft out. 

 The ftone-marle is called generally fea-fcum, being pretty 

 foft; and by the Tartars, in Crimea, it is called kfjfekil. 

 And as it cuts fo eafily, various figures are curioufly carved in 

 it, when it is worked into pipe-heads, which often are* 

 mounted with filver. F. 



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