15S Auguft 1749. 



or three yards broad, between the furroW?* 

 The perpendicular height of the middle of* 

 the ridge, from the level to the ground, is 

 near one foot. All their corn is fummer- 

 corn j for as the cold in winter deftroys 

 the corn which lies in the ground, they 

 never fow in autumn. I found white 

 wheat moil commonly in the fields. They 

 have likewife large fields with peafe, oats, 

 in fome places fummer-rye, and now and 

 then barley. Near almoft every farm I 

 met with cabbages, pumpions, and melons. 

 The fields are not always fown, but ly faU 

 low every two years. The fallow-fields 

 are not ploughed in fummcr, fo the weeds 

 grow without reftraint in them, and the 

 cattle are allowed to go on them all fum-* 

 mef *. 



The houfes in the country are buiU 

 promifcuoufly of fione, or wood. To 

 thofe of ftone they do not employ bricks, 

 as there is not yet any confiderable quan- 

 tity of bricks made here. They there- 

 fore take what fiones they can find in the 

 neighbourhood, efpecially the black lime- 

 ilates. Thefe are quite compadt when 

 4 broke. 



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* Here follows, in the original, an account of the 

 clofures made ufe of near ^ebec, which is intended only 

 for ihe Svjedis, but not for a nation that has made'fuch 

 progrefs in sgiicuhure and hufoandry, as the EngHJh. F» 



