28o September 1749. 



dians near it, melt it, and make balls and 

 fhot of it. I got fome pieces of it likewile, 

 confiding of a fhining cubic lead-ore, with 

 narrow ftripes between it, and of a white 

 hard earth or clay, which efFervefces with 

 aqua Jortis. 



I LIKEWISE received a rcddifh brown 

 earth to-day, found near the Lac de Deux 

 Montagties, or Lake of Two MountainSy a 

 few French miles from Montreal. It may 

 be eafily crumbled into duft between the 

 fingers. It is very heavy, and more fj than 

 the earth of that kind generally is. Out- 

 wardly, it has a kind of gloffy appearance, 

 and, when it is handled by the fingers for 

 fome time, they are quite as it were filver- 

 ed over. It is, therefore, probably a kind of 

 lead-earth or an earth mixed with iron- 

 glimmer. 



The ladies in Canada are generally of 

 two kinds : fome come over from France, 

 and the reft natives. The former polTefs 

 the politenefs peculiar to the French na- 

 tion ; the latter may be divided into thofe 

 of ^ehcc and Montreal. The firft of thefe 

 are equal to the French ladies in good 

 breeding, having the advantage of fre- 

 quently converfing with the French gentle- 

 men and ladies, who corne every fummer 

 with the king's (hips, and ftay feveral weeks 



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