302 September 1*749. 



gardens from the bottom to the fummih 

 On the fouth-eaft fide is the river St. Law- 

 fence* which is very broad here ; and on 

 its fides are extenfive corn-fields and mea- 

 dows* and fine houfes of ftone, which look 

 whke at a diftance. At a great diilance 

 ibuth-eaftward, appear the two high moun* 

 tains near fort Chamblais* and fome others 

 near lake Champlain, railing their tops a* 

 bove the woods. All the fields hereabouts 

 are filled with ftones of different fizes j and 

 among them, there is now and then a'black 

 lime-ftone. About a French mile from the 

 town, the high road goes along the river, 

 which is on the left-hand j and on the 

 right-hand all the country is cultivated and 

 inhabited. The farm-houfes are three> 

 four, or five arpens diftant from each 

 other. The hills near the river are gene- 

 rally high and pretty fteep ; they confift of 

 earth ; and the fields below them are filled 

 with pieces of rock-ftone, and of black 

 lime-flate. About two French miles froqi 

 Montreal, the river runs very rapidly, and 

 is full of ftones; in fome places there are 

 fome waves. However, thofe who go in 

 boats into the fouthern parts of Canada^ 

 are obliged to work through fuch places* 



MOST of the farm-houfes in tlifs neigh* 

 bourhood arc of ftone, partly of the black 



lime- 



