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the fprihg later than common, that a great 

 f>art of the wheat does not ripen perfectly 

 before the cold commences. I have beefi 

 affured that fome people, who live on the 

 JJle de Jeftis, fdw wheat in autumn* which 

 is better, finer, and gives a more plentiful 

 crop, than the fbmmer wheat \ but it does 

 hot ripen above a week before the other 

 Wheat* 



September the 25th. Itt feveral places 

 hereabouts, they enclofe the fields with a, 

 ftdne fence, inftead of wooden pales* The 

 plenty of ftones which are to be got here, 

 fender the labour very trifling; 



HERB are abundance of beech trees In 

 the woods* and they now had ripe feeds. 

 The people in Canada collect them in au- 

 turmij'dry them, and keep them till winter, 

 Xvhen they eat them, inftead of walnuts and 

 fcjet nuts 5 aftd I am told they tafte very 

 ^ 



^ a ialt fpring, as the prieft pf 

 this place infdfmed me^ feven French miles 

 from' hence, deaf the river < AJjomption *, ojf 

 which during the war, they have made a fine 

 white fait. The water isfaid to be very briny. 

 SOME kinds of fruit-trees fucceed very 

 near^ Montreal, and I had here an op- 

 nity' of feeing fome very fine pears and 

 apples of various forts* Near Qyebec the 

 T 2 pear- 



