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ter was likewife inaccurate, by being placed 

 in a bad fituation. 



The year Z 745- 



January. THE 2qth of this month the 

 river St. Lawrence was covered over with 

 ice, near Quebec. In the obfervations of 

 other years, it is obferved, that the river 

 is fometimes covered with ice in the be- 

 ginning of Jannary 9 or the end of Decem- 

 ber. 



February. NOTHING remarkable hap- 

 pend during the courfe of this month. 



March. THEY fay this has been the 

 mildeft winter they ever felt ; even the 

 eideft perfons could not remember one fo 

 mild. The fnow was only two feet deep, 

 and the ice in the river, oppofite Quebec, 

 had the fame thicknefs. On the twenty- 

 firft there was a thunder-ftorm, which fell 

 upon a foldier, and hurt him very much. 

 On the T gth and 2oth, they began to make 

 incifions into the fugar-maple, and to pre- 

 pare fugar from its juice. 



April. DURING this month they con- 

 tinued to extract the juice of the fugar- 

 maple, for making fugar. On the 7th 

 the gardeners began to make hot-beds. 

 On the 2oth the ice in the river broke 

 loofe near Quebec, and went down j which 

 rarely happens fo foon ; for the river St. 



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