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the fpring later than common, that a great 

 part of the wheat does not ripen perfeaiy 

 before the cold commences. I have been 

 afiured that fome people, who live on the 

 Ifle de Jefiis, fow wheat in autumn, which 

 is better, finer, and gives a more plentiful 

 crop, than the fummer wheat; but it does 

 not ripen above a week before the other 

 wheat. 



September the 25th. In feveral places 

 hereabouts, they enclofe the fields with a 

 ftone fence, inftead of wooden pales. The 

 plenty of ftones which are to be got here, 

 render the labour very trifling. 



Here are abundance of beech trees in 

 the woods, and they now had ripe ict^ds. 

 The people in Ca.?iada colled: them in au- 

 tumn, dry them, and keep them till winter, 

 when they eat them, inftead of walnuts and 

 hazel nuts ; and I am told they tafte very 

 well. 



There is a fait fpring, as the priefl of 

 this place informed me, feven French^ miles 

 from hence, near the river d Ajfomption ; of 

 which during the war, they have made a fine 

 white fait. The water is faid to be very briny. 



Some kinds of fruit-trees fucceed very 

 well near Montreal^ and I had here an op- 

 portunity of feeing fome very fine pears and 

 apples of various forts. Near ^cbec the 

 T 2 pear- 



