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HISTORICAL JOURNAL 



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Travels in North America: 



Undertaken 



By Order of the King of France. 



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L E T T E R I. 



^ Voyage from Rochelle to Quebec. Some Remarks upon the 

 Voyage^ the Great Bank of Newfoundland, and the Ri'ver St^ 

 Laurence, 



Madam, Quebec, Sept, 24. 



' Arrived in this City after a tedious and trouble- 

 fome PafTage of 83 Days : We had however but 

 1000 Leagues to make, fo that you fee we don't 

 always go Pofi at Sea, as M. the Abbot de Choify 

 ufed to fay. I made no Journal of this Voyage, 



becaufe I fufFered greatly by the Sea Sicknefs a- 



bwe a Month. I flattered myfelf that I fhould have been free 

 from it, becaufe I had fuffered it twice before ; but there are fome 

 Conftitutions which cannot fympathize with this Element, and 

 fuch is mine. And in the Condition we find ourfelves under this 

 Sicknefs, it is not polTible to attend to what palTes in the Ship s 

 On the other Hand, nothing is more barren than a Voyage like 

 this ; for the chief Obfervation to be made, is, whence the Wind 

 blows, how much the Ship gets forward, and if it keeps in the 

 right Courfe ; for daring two thirds of the Way there is nothing 

 to be feen but Sky and Water. However, I fhall proceed to in- 

 form you of what I can remember, that is moft likely to give you 



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