Montreal. 261 



At four o'clock In the evening we ar- 

 rived at Montreal', and our voyage was 

 reckoned a happy one, becaufe the vio- 

 lence of the river flowing againft us all the 

 way, and the changeablenefs of the winds, 

 commonly protrad: it to two weeks. 



Septefnber the 19th. Several people 

 here in town have got the French vines, 

 and planted them in their gardens. They 

 have two kinds of grapes, one of a pale 

 green, or almofi: white \ the other, of a 

 reddifh brown colour. From the white 

 ones they fay, white wine is made; and 

 from the red ones, red wine. The cold in 

 winter obliges them to put dung round the 

 roots of the vines, without vv'hich they 

 would be killed by the froft. The grapes 

 began to be ripe in thefe days ; the white 

 ones are a little fooner ripe than the red 

 ones. They make no wine of them here, 

 becaufe it is not worth while ; but they are 

 ferved up at deferts. They fay tliefe grapes 

 do not grow fo big here as in France. 



Water-melons * are cultivated in 

 great plenty in the FngliJJo and French Ame^ 

 rican colonies ^ and there is hardly a pea- 

 fant here, who has not a field planted with 

 them. They are chiefly cultivated in the 



Cncurhita citr alius Linn. 



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