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among them, muft pay a confiderable fum 

 of money towards the common ftock ; and 

 fome people reckon it to be four thoufand 

 livres. If a perfon be once received, (he 

 is fure of a fubfiftence during her life- 

 time. 



La Chine is a fine village, three French 

 miles to the fouth-eaft of Montreal^ but on 

 the fame ifle, clofe to the river St. Law- 

 rence. The farm-houfes ly along the river- 

 fide, about four or five arpens from each 

 other. Here is a fine church of ftone, with 

 a fmall fteeple ; and the whole place has a 

 very agreeable fituation. Its name is faid 

 to have had the following origin. As the 

 unfortunate M. Salee was here, who was 

 afterwards murdered by his own country- 

 men further up in the country, he was very 

 intent upon difcovering a (horter road to 

 China y by means of the river St. Lawrence. 

 He talked of nothing at that time but his 

 new fhort way to China. But as his pro- 

 ject of undertaking this journey, in order 

 to make this difcovery, was flopped by an 

 accident which happened to him here, and 

 he did not that time come any nearer China, 

 this place gct its name, as it were, by way 

 of joke. 



THIS evening I returned to Montreal. 

 1tnc;VoL. III. U October 



