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LETTER VI. 



Voyage from Quebec to the Three Rivers. Of 

 riding pofl on the [now. Of the lordjhips of 

 New France. Defcription of Beckancourt. 

 Tradition with refpedl to the origin of the 

 name of the Stinking River. Defcription of 

 the Three Rivers. Sequel of the huntings of 

 the Indians. 



Three Rivers, March 6, 1721. 



Madam, 



1 Arrived ye^erday in this town, after a journey 

 of two days* and though it is twenty-five leagues 

 diftant from Quebec, I could very eafily have tra- 

 velled the whole of it in twelve hours, as I took 

 the way of a Combiature, which the fnow and ice 

 render exceeding eafy in this country in the winter 

 feaforr, and as it is full as cheap as the common 

 way of travelling. They make uie of a Hedge for 

 this purpofe, or of what the French here call a Ca- 

 riole, which glides fo fmoothly, that one horfe is 

 enough to draw it at full gallop, which is their or^ 

 dinary pace. They frequently change horfes and 

 have them very cheap. In cafe of neceffity, one 

 might travel this way lixty leagues in twenty four 



hours 



