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hills, feparated from each other, large 

 fields, which looked quite white from the 

 corn with which they are covered, and 

 excellent woods of deciduous trees, made 

 the country round us look very plea- 

 fant. Now and then we faw a church 

 of ftone, and in feveral places brooks fell 

 from the hills into the river. Where the 

 brooks are confiderable, there they have 

 made faw- mills, and water-mills. 



After rowing for the fpace of a French 

 mile and a half, we came to the ille of 

 Orleans, which is a large ifland, near {tstn. 

 French miles and a half long, and almoft 

 two of thofe miles broad, in the widefl 

 part. It lies in the middle of the river 

 St. Lawrence^ is very high, has fteep and 

 very woody fliores. There are fome places 

 without trees, which have farm-houfes be- 

 low, quite clofe to the fhore. The ifle 

 iifelf is well cultivated, and nothing but 

 fine houfes of Hone, large corn-fields, mea- 

 dows, paftures, woods of deciduous trees,, 

 and fome churches built of ftone, are to 

 be feen on it. 



We went into that branch of the river 

 which flows on the v/eft lide of the ifle of 

 Orleans, it being the fhortefl:. It is rec- 

 koned about a quarter of a French mile 

 broad, but fhips cannot take this road, on 



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