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Mountain there appeared a Gulf, which it is not fafe to approach. 

 We might have paffed on the South of the Ifland Coudresy and 

 this PaSage would have been fafe and eafy ; it bears the Name 

 m M. d'lber^uille, who tryed it with Succefs, but it is the Cuflom 

 to pafs by the North, and Cuflom is an abfolute Law for the Ge- 

 nerality of Mankind. 



Above the Gulph I have jufl: mentioned is the Bay of St, Paul, 

 Of the Ba of ^^^^^^'^ ^^^^ Habitations begin on the North 

 St Paul ^'^^^ ' ^^'^ thtTQ are fome Woods of Pine- 



Trees, which are much valued : Here are alfo 

 fome red Pines of great Beauty. MefTrs. of the Seminary of 

 ^.ehec are Lords of this * Bay. Six Leagues higher, there is 

 a very high Promontory, which terminates a Chain of Moun- 

 tains, which extend above 400 Leagues to the Weil: It is call- 

 ed Cape T orment, probably becaufe he that gave it this 

 Name, faltered here by a Gufl of Wind. The Anchorage is 

 good, and we are furrounded by lilands of all Sizes, which aiford 

 a very good Shelter. The mofh confiderable is the Ifle of Or- 

 leans y the Fields of which being all cultivated, appear like an 

 Amphitheatre, and terminate the Profpeél very pleafmgly. This 

 Illand is about 14 Leagues in Compafs ; and in 1676 it was 

 made a Title of Honour, and firll gave Title of Count to Francis 

 Bertheloty Secretary General of the Oidinance, by the Stile of 

 Count St, Laurence-^ v/ho purchafed it oï Francis de Larval, firll 

 Eilhop of i^^ehec. It contained then four Villages, but it has 

 now fix Parifiies pretty well peopled. Of the two Channels 

 made by this Ifland, that of the South only is navigable for 

 Ships : Even Boats cannot pafs that of the North but at high 

 W^ater : So that from Cape Torment we mull traverfe the River 

 to go to ^ehecy and this Traverfe has its Difficulties ; we meet 

 with fome-moving Sands, on which there is not always Water 

 enough for large Velfels, fo that this is never attempted but 

 whilft the Tide flows. But this Difficulty might be fhunned by 

 taking the PalTage of M. dUher^uille. Cape Torment^ from which 

 v/e pafs to make the Traverfe, is i lo Leagues from the Sea, and 

 yet the Water is a little brackiih : It is not fit todrink, but at the 

 Entrance of the two Canals, which form the Ille of Orleafis. 

 This is a Phœnomenon pretty hard to explain, efpecially if we 

 confider the great Rapidity of the River, notwithftanding its 

 Breadth. The Tide flows here regularly 5 Hours, and ebbs 

 feven. At Tadouffac it ebbs and flows fix Hours ; and the higher 

 we go up the River, the more the Flood diminiflies, and the Ebb 

 încreafes. At twenty Leagues above ^ebec it flows three Hours, 

 ;§.nd ebbs nine. Higher up the Tide is not perceivable. When it is 



* A vei / i^eod Lead Mine has been found here lately, 



half 



