Montreal. ^O" 



iimc-ftone, and partly of other flones 

 in the neighbourhood. The roof is mads 

 of Ihingies or of iiraw. The gable is al- 

 ways very high and fteep. Other buildings, 

 luch as barns and ftables, are of wood. 



Wild-geese and ducks, began now to 

 migrate in great flocks to the routhcni 

 countries. 



OSiober the 2d. The two preceding days, 

 and this, I employed chiefly in colleding 

 feeds. 



The laft night's froft had caufed a great 

 alteration in feveral trees. Walnut-trees 

 of all forts (hed their leaves in plenty now. 

 The flowers of a kind of nettle * were all 

 entirely killed by the froil:. The leaves of 

 the American lime-tree were likewife da- 

 maged. In the kitchen-gardens the leaves 

 of the melons were all killed by the froft. 

 However, the beech, oak, and birch, did 

 not feem to have fuffered at all. The fields 

 were all covered with a hoar-froft. The 

 ice in the pools of water was a geometrical 

 line and a half in thicknefs. 



The biennial Oenothera -f- grows in 

 abundance on open woody hills, and fallow 



* Urtica di'uaritata, Linn. 

 f Otnorhera biennis, Linn. 



fields. 



