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burn train-oil of porpeiTc:?, which is the 

 common oil here. Whf re they have none 

 of it, they fiipply its place with train-oil 

 of feals. 



September the ift. There was a woman 

 with child in this village, who was now 

 in the fifty-ninth year of her age. She had 

 not had the catamenia during eighteen 

 years. In the year 1748, The got the 

 fmall-pox, and now ("he was very big. She 

 faid {he was very well, and could feel the 

 motions of the foetus. She looked very 

 well, and had her hufband alive. This 

 being an uncommon cafe, (lie was brought 

 to the royal phyfician, M. Gaulthier, vi^ho 

 accompanied us on this journey. 



At half an hour after feven this morn- 

 ing we went down the river. The coun- 

 try near T^erre d'Eboulemeitt is high, and 

 confifls of hills of a loofe mould, which \y 

 in three or four rows above each other, and 

 are all well cultivated, and moflly turned 

 into corn-fields ; though there are likewife 

 meadows and paftures. 



The great earthquake which happened 

 in Canada, in February y 1663, and v.^hich 

 is mentioned by Charlevoix '^, has done 

 confiderable damage to this place. Pvlany 



* Sec his H'jioire de la NcHvel'e France, Tom. II, p. m. 

 135. 



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