252 September 1749. 



In the river Charles the ice was thick 

 enough for horfes with heavy loads to pafs 

 over it. On the 26th the ice in the river 

 St. Lawrence was wafhed away by a heavy 

 rain; bat on the 28th part of that river 

 was again covered with ice. 



The next obfervations (hew, that the 

 winter has likewife been one of the mildeft. 

 I now refume the account of my own 

 journey. 



This evening I left ^lebec with a fair 

 wind. The governor-general of Canada^ 

 the marquis de la Jonqidere, ordered one 

 of the king's boats, and (even men to bring 

 me to Montreal. The middle of the boat 

 was cbvered with blue cloth, under which 

 we were fecured from the rain. This jour- 

 ney I made at the exp^nce of the French 

 king. We went three French miles to-day. 



September the 12th. We continued our 

 journey during all this day. 



The fmali kind of maize, which ripens 

 in three months time, was ripe about this 

 time, and the people drew it out of the 

 ground, and hung it up to dry. 



The weather about this time was like 

 the beginning of our Augujl, old flile. 

 Therefore it feems, autumn commences a 

 whole month later in Canada, than in the 

 midfl of Sweden, 



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