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LETTER II. 



Voyage Jrom Rochelle to Quebec ; fome Remarks 

 on that pajfage> on the great Bank of New- 

 foundland, and on the River St. Lawrence. 



Quebec i Sept. 24, 1720. 



Madam, 



"€7 Efterday I arrived in this city, after a tedious 

 \ and troublefome paffage of eleven weeks and 

 fix days ; we had, however, only a thoufand leagues 

 to fail ; thus you fee that at fea we do not always 

 travel as M. l'Abbe de Choify ufed to fay per la via 

 delle pofte. 1 have kept no journal of this voyage, 

 as I fuffered greatly from the fea-ficknefs which 

 lafted with me for more than a month. I had 

 flattered myfelf with being quit this time, having 

 already paid tribute twice before ; but there are con- 

 futations which are abfolutely incapable of enduring 

 that element, of which fort mine is one. Now in 

 the condition, to which we are reduced by this in- 

 difpofition, it is abfolutely impoflible to give any 

 attention to what pafles in the ftiip. And befides, 

 nothing can be more barren than fuch a navigation 

 as this; for we are generally taken up with en- 

 quiring how the wind blows, at what rate we ad- 

 vance, and whether it be in the right courfe and 

 during two thirds of the way you fee nothing but 

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