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You will, perhaps, be amazed to hear, that 

 in the fpace of eight monihs, I have feen two 

 winters, two fummers, and two fprings •, I ihall 

 now explain it to you. I wrote to you, that I 

 left the Illinois at the end of December, 1736, 

 when the MiJ/ifppi began to freeze, and defcend- 

 ing that great river, I came to New Orleans in 

 January 1757, the climate of which is comparable 

 to that of the Hierlan iflands, where our regi- 

 ment was in 1744. That is, it was the feafon 

 of gardening or fpring. I left Louiftana the 

 firfl of April 1757, and came to Cape Fraufcis 

 the firfl of May, and found ilimmer there : I 

 embarked for Europe on the fourth, and after 

 coming out of the Bahama C/iamel wc met with 

 fpring i continuing our voyage to the great 

 fands of Newfoundland^ we faw on the twenty- 

 fecond, at fun-rifing, a floating mountain ot 

 ice, which at firfl we took to be a fail; but 

 the keeri aif "coming from it convinced us at 

 lafl that it was a piece of ice from the frozen 

 ocean. On the fifteenth of June 1757, we 

 came to Brejl^ where we found fummer. This 

 therefore is a pretty extraordinary cafe. 

 I am, S I R, &c. 



At Brejl, the \Zth 

 of June i^S7' 



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