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mountains, where we could not have found 

 a fingle place to land with fafety, during 

 the fpace of five miles, in cafe a high wind 

 had arifen. There are indeed two or three 

 openings, or holes, in the mountains, into 

 which one could have drawn the boat, in 

 the greatefl danger. But they are {o nar- 

 row, that in cafe the boat could not find 

 them in tlie hurry, it would inevitably be 

 dafhed againft the rocks. Thefe high 

 mountains are either quite bare, or cover- 

 ed with fome fmall firs, ilanding far afun- 

 der. In fome places there are great clefts, 

 going down the mountains, in which trees 

 grow very clofe together, and are taller 

 than on the other parts of the mountain; 

 fo that thofe places look like quick-hedges, 

 planted on the folid rock. A little while 

 after we pafi^ed a fmall church, and fome 

 farms round it. The place is called Pe- 

 tite Riviere, and they fay, its inhabitants 

 are very poor, which feems very probable. 

 They have no more land to cultivate, than 

 what lies between the mountains and the 

 river, which in the wideft part is not above 

 three muiket (liot, and in moft parts but 

 one broad. About feven teen Frd'/z^// miles 

 from ^ebec the water is fo falty in the 

 river, that no one can drink it, our rowers 

 therefore provided themfelves with a kettle 

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