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Grey pieces of rock-ftone are to be {'itix 

 in the woods and fields hereabouts. 



The leaves of feveral trees and plants be- 

 gan now to get a pale hue; efpecially thofc 

 of the red maple, the fmooth fumach *, 

 the Polygonum fagittatiun , Linn, and fe- 

 veral of the ferns. 



A GREAT crofs is ere(5lcd on the road 

 and the boy who (l^sewed me the wood, told 

 me that aperfon was buried there, who had 

 wrought great miracles. 



At noon I arrived at Saut au Rtrollef, 

 which is a Httle place, fituated on a branch 

 of the river St. Lawrence ^ which flows 

 with a violent current between the ifles of 

 Montreal 2i'c\di J ejus. It has got its name 

 from an accident which happened to a re- 

 collet friar, called Nicolas Veil, in the year 

 1625. He went into a boat with a convert- 

 ed India?!, and fome Indians of the nation of 

 Hurons, in order to go to ^lebec -, bur, on 

 going over this place in the river, the boat 

 overfet, and both the friar and his profelyte 

 were drowned. The Indians (who have 

 been fufpedled of occafioning the overfet- 

 ting of the boat) Avam to the fhore, faved 

 what they could of the friars efFe(5ts, and 

 kept them. 



* Rhus glabrum, Linn. 



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