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Hares are likewife faid to be plentifal 

 near Hudfons Bay, and they are abundant 

 even in Canada, where I have often ii:tn^ 

 and found them perfectly correfponding 

 with our Sivedip:) hares. In fumnier they 

 have a brownifli grey, and in winter a fnowy 

 white colour, as with us *. 



Mechanics, fuch as arch itedure^cabinet- 

 work, turning, and the hke, were not yet 

 fo forward here as they ought to bcj and 

 the Eng/jJJj, in that particular, out do the 

 French, The chief caufe of this is, that 

 fcarce any other people than difmiiTed fol- 

 diers come to fettle here, who have not 

 had any opportunity of learning a mecha- 

 nical trade, but have fometimes acciden- 

 tally, and through neceffity been obliged 

 to it. There are however fome, who have 

 a good notion of mechanics, and I faw a 

 perfon here, who made very good clocks, 

 and watches, though he had had but very 

 little inftrucflion. 



July the 27th. The common houfe- 

 flies have but been obfervcd in this country 

 about one hundred and fifty years ago, as I 

 have been affured by feveral perfons in this 

 town, and in ^ebec. AW ihc Indians ^(^Qvt 

 the fame thing, and are of opinion that the 



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" See a figure of this hare in its white fiate, in the Suppl. 

 to jS/. ZooL plate XL VII. f. i. F. 



