it Jn Hijîorîcâl Journaî of 



For Inftance : If the Ships of France do not arrive fo foon as 

 ufual, they are confulted to hear News of them, and it is faid 

 they have fometimes anfwered pretty true ; that is to fay y having 

 gueffed right once or twice, and having out of Diverfion made 

 People believe that they fpoke from a certain Knowledge, Peo» 

 pie fancied they had confulted the Devil. 



When James Cartier difcovered this Ifland, he found it full of 

 Vines, and named it the Ifle of Bacchus, This Navigator was a 

 ^otJi^B^eiiiim, After him there came feme Normans ; who plucked up 

 the Vines, and fubftituted Pomona and Ceres in the Room of 

 Bacchus, In Faél, it produces good Wheat and excellent Fruit. 

 They alfo begin to cultivate Tobacco, and it is not bad.— At 

 length, on Monday the 23d, the Camel anchored before ^ebec^ . 

 where I arrived two Hours before in a Canoe of Bark. I have 

 a thoufand Leagues to travel in thefe brittle V chicles : I muft" 



ufe myfelf to them by Degrees. —This is, Madam, all that 



I could recoiled of the Particulars of my Voyage.— -I Ihall have 

 fome thing of more Gonfequence to write hereafter. 



/ am^ Szc. 



LETTER II. 



jî Defcription of Quebec, CharaBer of the Inhabitants y and the 

 Manner of Lining in the French Colony. 



Madam, Quebec, OB, 28, 172O0 



Am going to fpeak of All the Defcriptions I have 



hitherto feen o^ it are fo different, that I thought it would 

 be a Pleafure to you to fee a true Piélure of this Capital of 

 Newo France* It really defer ves to be known, were it only for 

 the Singularity of its Situation ; for it is the only City in the 

 World that can boafl of a Port in freih Water a hundred and 

 twenty Leagues from the Sea, and capable of containing one 

 hundred Ships of the Line. It is alfa fituated on the mofi navi- 

 gable River in the V/ orld. 



This River, up to the Ifle of OrleaIjs^ that is to fay, one 



T;rn 7 Tvr 4 hundred and ten, or one hundred and twelve 



hence the Name -r r ^-l o • i r ^i r ^ 



©■^ Quebec de I-'^^R^-^^ rrom the bea, is never ieîs than tour 



©/ v^i , e- p^^^ Leap ues wide : but above the liland 



TiUed* • 11 r-s ir 



It grov7s narrower all at once^ io tnat beiore 

 ^ebec it is but a Mile broad, which gave it the Name of ^ue- 

 heiOyOr ^ebec ; which, in the Algonquin Language, iignifies Con- 

 tra^ioHt The AhnaquiSf whofe Language is a Diale6l of the 



Algonquin^ 



