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the whole year, which the people on board 

 brought with them, or Vv'hich they impofed 

 upon them as new. The ladies in Canada, 

 and efpecially at Montreal^ src very ready 

 to laugh at any blunders Grangers make in 

 fpeaking -, but they are very excufable. 

 People laugh at what appears uncommon 

 and ridiculous. In Canada nobody ever 

 hears the French language fpoken by any 

 but Frenchmen ; for Grangers feldom come 

 thither ; and the Indians are naturally too 

 proud to learn French, but oblige the French 

 to learn their language. From hence it 

 naturally follows, that the nice Canada la^ 

 dies cannot hear any thing uncommon with- 

 out laughing at it. One of the firft quef- 

 tions they propofe to a (Iranger is, whether 

 he is married ? The next, how he likes the 

 ladies in the country ; and whether he 

 thinks them handibmer than thofe of his 

 ^ own country ? And the third, whether he 

 will take one home with him ? There are 

 fome differences between the ladies oi ^ie- 

 hec, and thofe of Mc?2treal -, thofe of the 

 lafi place feemed to be generally hand- 

 fomer than thofe of the former. Their 

 behaviour likewife feemed to me to be 

 fomewhat too free at ^ebec, and of a 

 more becoming modefty ar Montreal. The 

 ladies at Quebec, efpecially the unmarried 

 ones, are not vtry indullrious. A girl of 



eighteen 



