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in September, 1749, on the North Shore of the St. Law- 

 rence, in the sail-boat kindly provided for him and his 

 friends. St. Joachim, Petite-Eiviere, St. Paul's Bay, 

 Eboulements, Murray Eay (then known as Mai Baie), 

 are successively surveyed with Dr. Gaulthier; Bay 

 St. Paul is examined with the eye of science. 



September 2, 1749 — " This morning, he says, we 

 went to see the silver or lead veins. They lay a little 

 on the South-side of the mills belonging to the priests 



" He conjectures, adds C. Eoger, that all 



" the flat ground at St. Paul was formerly the bottom of 

 " a river, as a great part of the plants which are to be met 

 " with, are marine, such as glass-wort, sea-mil wort, 

 " and seaside pease ; but when he asked the inhabitants 

 " whether they found shells in the ground by digging 

 " for wells, they always answered in the negative. He 

 " received the same answer from those who lived in 

 " the low fields, directly north of Quebec. Now, the 

 " worthy and learned Professor had been ill-informed, 

 " as from the Montmorency to nearly the source of the 

 " St. Charles, there is to be seen layer upon layer of 

 " such shells, to the great astonishment of every stranger 

 " at all geologically interested either by study or by 

 " profession. At Mount Lilac, in Beauport, and at Marl 

 " Farm, in Lorette, marine shells are obtainable in 

 " cart-loads. " 



You have had the Professor's opinion on Governors, 

 Indians, public buildings, ships, houses, horses, mines, 

 would you like to know what he thought of the young 

 ladies of Quebec one hundred and thirty years ago : one 

 would fancy those he saw did not belong to the (1) 

 F. F. Q.'s — the bonne sociiU of the period, from the 

 severity of his remarks. 



" Their fault, he says, is that they think too well of 

 themselves. However, the daughters of people of all 



(1) F. F. Q. First Famillies of Quebec. 



