Montmorencii, iij 



111 order to build houfes-of it, pave floors 

 with it, and make flair-cafes of it. Great 

 qu an 11 lies of it are fent to ^lehcc. It is re- 

 markable, that there are petrefac^^ons in this 

 fco.je, but never any in the black lime- 

 flates 



The women dye their woollen yarn yel= 

 low with feeds of gale,* which is called 

 pQpvr'ier herCj and grows abundant in wet 

 places. 



This evening, M. Gaulthier and I went 

 to fee the water-fall at Montmorenci. The 

 country near the river is high and \^v^\, 

 and laid out into nieadov/s. Above them 

 the high and fteep hills begin, which are 

 covered with a cruil- of mould, and turned 

 into corn-fields. In fome very fteep places, 

 and near the rivulets, the hills confifl of 

 mere black lime-flate, which is often crum- 

 bled into fmall pieces, like earth. All the 

 fields below the hills are full of fuch pieces 

 of lime-flate. When fome of the larger 

 pieces are broken, they fmell like flink- 

 llone. In fome more elevated places, the 

 earth confifls of a pale red colour; and the 

 lime-flates are likewife reddifh. 



TiiE water-fill near Montmorenci is one 

 of the highcfl: 1 ever faw. It is in a river 



* Mjr'.ca gale. Linn. 



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