continuation of my journey, for the year 

 1750*, I {hall find an opportunity of fpeak- 

 ing of two other remarkable curicfities. 

 tDur SwedlJJj Mr. George Wejimann^ A. M, 

 has clearly, and circumftantially fhewn, 

 that our Scajidmavians, chiefly the northern 

 ones, long before Columbu5\ time, have 

 undertaken voyages to North- America \ fee 

 his differtation on that fubjedl, which he 

 read at Abo in 1747, for obtaining his de- 

 gree. 



Augujl the 8th, This morning I vifit-. 

 ed the largeft nunnery in ^ebec. Men 

 are prohibited from vifiting under very 

 heavy punifhments ; except in fome rooms, 

 divided by iron rails, where the men and 

 women, that do not belong to the convent, 

 ftand without, and the nuns within the 

 rails, and converfe with each other. But 

 to encreafe the many favours which the 

 French nation heaped upon me, as a Svjede^ 

 the governor-general got the bilhop's leave 

 for me to enter the convent, and fee its 

 conftrudtion. The bifhop alone has the 

 power of granting this favour, but he does 

 it very fparingly. The royal phyfician,^ 

 and a furgeon, are however at liberty io 

 go in as often as they think proper. Mr. 



* This part has not yet been pijbliflied, 



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