48 y^b ^749* 



The Rattle Snake, according to the 

 unanimous accounts of the French^ is nevtf 

 feen in this neighbourhood, nor further 

 north near Montreal and ^ebec i and the 

 mountains which furround fort St. Frederic^ 

 are the moft northerly part on this fide, 

 where they have been fcen. Of all the 

 fnakes which are found in Cafiada to the 

 north of thefe mountains, none is poifon-* 

 ous enough to do any great harm to a man j 

 and all without exception run away when 

 they fee a man. My remarks on the 

 nature and properties of the rattle-fnake, 

 I have communicated to the royal Suoedijh 

 academy of fciences, * and thither I reitr 

 my readers. 



'^ttly the 22d. This evening fome 

 people arrived with borfes from "Prairie, in 

 order to fetch us. The governor had itwl 

 for them at my defire, becaufe there wtre 

 not yet any horfes near fort St. 'John, the 

 place being only a year old, and the people 

 had not had time to fettle near it. Thofe 

 who led the horfes, brought letters to the go- 

 vernor from the governor-general of Canaddi 

 the Marquis la Gal/J]o?iicre, dated at Quebec 

 the fifteenth of this month, and from the 

 vice-governor of Montreal, the B-ron 



* See their Memoirs for the year 1752, p. 30S, k£t. 9. ■ 



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