66 yuly ijig. 



abouts. However, it came on very v<}t\\ 

 here. 



About half an hour after feven in the 

 evening wt left this pleafant ifland, and an 

 hour after our return the baron de Longueiiil 

 received two agreeable pieces of news at once. 

 The firfl was, that his fon, who had been 

 two years in France, was returned ; and 

 the fecond, that he had brought with him 

 the royal patents for his father, by which 

 he was appointed governor of Montreal, 

 and the country belonging to it. 



They make ufe of fans here, which are 

 made of the tails of the wild turkeys. As 

 foon as the birds are fhot, their tails are 

 fpread like fans, and dried, by which means 

 they keep their figure. The ladies and the 

 rnen of diftindtion in town wear thefe fans, 

 when they walk in the flreets, during the 

 intenfenefs of the heat. 



All the grafs on the meadows round 

 ikf^;2/;r^/,conliftschieflyof a fpecies oi Mea^ 

 dow-grafs, or the Poa capillaris, Linn. * 

 This is a very flender grafs, which grows 

 very clofe, and fucceeds even on the drieft 

 hills. It is however not rich in foliage; 

 and the flender ftalk is chiefly ufed for hay. 



We 



* Mr. Kalm defer ibes it thus : Poa culmofubcompr^JJ'o, pa. 

 v'-cula ieni'JJJima,fpiculis trijioris minimis^ fiojculis baji pubejcsn- 

 tibus. 



