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could not remember the particular year. 

 Every body allowed, that the fummers in 

 1748, and 1749, had been warmer in Ca- 

 nada than they have beeffmany years ago. 



THE foil is reckoned pretty fertile ; and 

 wheat yields nine or ten grains from one. 

 But when this old man was a boy, and the 

 country was new and rich every where, 

 they could get twenty, or four-and-twenty, 

 grains from one. They fow but little rye 

 here; nor do they fow much barley, except 

 for the ufe of cattle. They complain, 

 however, that when they have a bad crop, 

 they are obliged to bake bread of barley. 



September the I4th. THIS morning we 

 got up early, and purfued our journey. 

 After we had gone about two French miles, 

 we got into lake St. Pierre^ which we 

 crofled. Many plants, which are common 

 in our Swedijh lakes, fwim at the top of 

 this water. This lake is faid to be covered 

 every winter with fuch ftrong ice, that a 

 hundred loaded horfes could go over it to^ 

 gether with fafety. 



A CRAW- FISH, or river lobfter, fome- 

 what like a crab, but quite minute, about 

 two geometrical lines long, and broad in 

 proportion, was frequently drawn up by us 

 with the aquatic weeds. Its colour is a 

 pale green i(h white. 



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