8o Augiift 1749. 



feldom of glafs, but moil: frequently of pa« 

 per. They have iron lloves in one of the 

 rooms, and chimnies in the reft. The 

 roofs are covered with boards. The cre- 

 vices and chinks are filled up with clay* 

 The other buildings are covered with draw. 



There are feveral Crojes put up with 

 the road fide, which is parallel to the fhores 

 of the river. Thefe croffes are very com- 

 mon in Canada, and are put up to excite 

 devotion in the travellers. They are made 

 of wood, five or fix yards high, and pro- 

 portionally broad. In that fide which lo:.ks 

 towards the road is a fquare hole, in which 

 they place an image of our Saviour, the 

 crofs, or of the holy Virgin, with the child 

 in her arms j and before that they pot a 

 piece of glafs, to prevent its being fpoiled 

 by the weather. Thofe croiTes which are 

 not far from churches, are very much 

 adorned, and tliey put up about them all 

 the infi:ruments which they think the Jeii's 

 employed in crucifying our Saviour, fuch 

 as a hammer, tongs, nails, a flaflv of vine- 

 gar, and perhaps many more than were 

 really made ufe of. A figure of the cock, 

 which crowed when St. Peter denied our 

 Lord, is commonly put at the top of the 

 crofs. 



The country on both fides was very de- 

 lightful 



