Between MoPJrea/ and "1 rois Rhieres. S t 



lightful to day, and the fine ftate of its cul- 

 tivation, added greatly to the beauty of the 

 fcene. It could really be called a village, 

 beginning at Montreal, and ending at S^ue-- 

 6ec, which is a diftance of more than one 

 hundred and eighty miles; for the farm- 

 houfes are never above five arpens, and 

 fometimes but three, afunder, a few places 

 excep^f d. The profpedt is exceedingly beau- 

 tiful, when the river goes on for fome miles 

 together in a ftrait line, becaufe it then 

 {hortens the diftances between the houfes, 

 and makes them form exadly one continued 

 village. 



All the women in the country, with- 

 out exception, wear caps of fome kind or 

 other. Their jackets are fliort, and fo are 

 their petticoats, which fcarce reach down 

 to the middle of their legs ; and they have 

 a filver crofs hanging down on the. breall:. 

 In general they are very laborious ; how- 

 ever, I faw fome, who, like the EngliJJj 

 women in the colonies, did nothing but 

 prattle all the day. When they have any 

 thing to do within doors, they (efpccially 

 the girls) commonly fingfongs, in which the 

 words Amour and Cceur are very frequent. 

 In the country it is ufual, that when the 

 hufband receives a vifit from perfons of 

 rank, ''and dines with them, his wife ftands 



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