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The Indians have employed this ftone for 

 the fame purpofes for feveral ages pad, and 

 have taught it the Europeans, The heads 

 of the tobacco-pipes are naturally of a pale 

 grey colour 3 but they are blackened whilfl 

 they are quite new, to make them look 

 better. They cover the head all over with 

 greafe, and hold it over a burning candle, or 

 any other fire, by which means it gets a 

 good black colour, which is encreafed by- 

 frequent ufe. The tubes of the pipes are 

 always made of wood-f-. 



There are no coals near this fall, or in 

 the fteep hills clofe to it. However, the 

 people in the neighbouring village {hewed 

 me a piece of coal, which, they faid, they 

 had found on one of the hills about the 

 fall. 



We arrived at S^uebec very late at night. 

 • September the 8th. Intermitting fe- 

 vers of all kinds are very rare at ^lebec, as 

 Mr. Gaiilthier affirms. On the contrary, 



f AH over Voland, RitJJta, Turky, and Tartaryy they fmoke 

 out of pipes made of a kind of ftone marie, to which ihey 

 fix long wooden tubes ; for which latter purpofe, they com- 

 inonly employ the young flioots of the various kinds of Jpi- 

 raa, which have a kind of pith eafily to be thiull out. 

 The ftone-marle is called generally fe;-icum, being pre-tty 

 foft; and by the Tartan, in C ima, it is called kffkil. 

 And as it cuts fo eafily, various fi<- ui cs are curioufly carved in 

 it, when it is worked into pipe-heads, . which often are 

 joounted with iilver. F. 



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