2 5 8 September 1749. 



returned to Quebec, to renew his vows 

 there ; and he feemed to be healthy, and 

 in good fpirits. The other two people 

 were our landlord and his wife ; he was 

 above eighty years of age, and fhe was not 

 much younger. They had now been fifty- 

 one years married. The year before, at 

 the end of the fiftieth year of their mar- 

 riage, they went to church together, and 

 offered up thanks to God Almighty for 

 the great grace he gave them. They were 

 yet quite well, content, merry, and talk- 

 ative. The old man faid, that he was at 

 Quebec when the Englijh befieged it, in the 

 year 1690, and that the bifhop went up 

 and down the ftreets, dreifed in his ponti- 

 fical robes, and a fword in his hand, in 

 order to recruit the fpirits of the foldiers. 



THIS -old man faid, that he thought the 

 winters were formerly much colder than 

 they are now. There fell likewife a greater 

 quantity of fnow, when he was young. 

 He could remember the time when pum- 

 pions, cucumbers, &c. were killed by the 

 froft about mid-fummer, and he affured 

 me, that the fummers were warmer now 

 than they ufed to be formerly. About 

 thirty and fome odd years ago, there was 

 fuch a fevere winter in Canada, that the 

 froft killed many birds ; but the old man 



could 



