190 Augujt 1749. 



about five inches long, and about as mucli 

 diftant from each other. 



The profpecft of the country about a 

 quarter of a mile SwediJJj, north of '^lebec, 

 on the weft fide of the river St. Lawrenci^ 

 is very fine. The country is very fteep 

 towards the river, and grows higher as you 

 go further from the water. In many places 

 it is naturally divided into terraces. From 

 the heights, one can look a great way : 

 ^lebec appears very plain to the fouth, and 

 the river St. Lawrence to the eaft, on which 

 were velTcls failing up and down. To the weft: 

 are the high mountains, which the hills of 

 the river end with. All the country is laid 

 out for corn-fields, meadows, and pafturesj 

 moft of the fields were fown with wheat, 

 many with white oats, and fome with peafe. 

 Several fine houfes and farms are inter-' 

 fperfed all over the country, and none ^are 

 ever together. The dwelling - houfe is 

 commonly built of black lime-flates, and . 

 generally white-waflied on the outfidci 

 Many rivulets and brooks roll down the 

 high grounds, above which the great moun- 

 tains ly, and which confift entirely of th e 

 black lime-flates, that fhiver in pieces in 

 the open air. On the lime-flates lies a 

 mould of two or three feet in depth. The 

 foil in the corn-fields is always mixed with 



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