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pretty flat, and interfeded now and then 

 by a clear rivulet. The roads are very 

 good, broad, and lined with ditches oa 

 Bach fide, in low grounds. Further from 

 the town, the land rifes higher and higher, 

 and confifts as it were of terraces, one 

 above another. This rifing ground is, 

 however, pretty fmooth, chiefly without 

 ftones, and covered with rich mould. Un- 

 (ier that is the black lime-flate, which is 

 fo common hereabouts, and is divided into 

 fmall fliivers, and corroded by the air. 

 Some of the fl:rata were horizontal, others 

 perpendicular ; I have likewife found fuch 

 perpendicular flrata of lime-fl:ates in other 

 places, in the neighbourhood of ^ebec. 

 All the hills are cultivated ; and foaie are 

 adorned with fine churches, houfes, and 

 corn-fields. The meadows are commonly 

 in the vallies, though fome were likewiic 

 on eminencies. Soon after we had a fine 

 profpedt from one of thef^ hills. Quebec 

 appeared very plain to the eaflvvard, and 

 the river St. Lawre?ice could likewife be 

 feen ; further diilant, on the fouth-eafc ^\(\q 

 of that river, appears a long chain of high 

 mountains, running generally parallel to it, 

 though many miles diflant from it. To 

 the v/efl: again, at iome diftance from the 

 rifing lands where we were, the hills chang- 

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