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LETTER Villi 



Defcription of the country between lake St. Peter 

 and Montreal 5 in what it differs from that 

 near Quebec. Defcription of the if and and 

 city of Montreal, and the country adjacent* 

 Of the fea-cow, fea-wblf, porpoife, and whale- 

 fijhery. 



Montreal, March 20, 1711* 



Madam, 



I Set out on the 13th from St. Francis, and next 

 day arrived in this city. In this paffage, which 

 is about twenty leagues, I had not the fame plea- 

 fure as formerly of performing the fame journey by 

 water in a canoe, in the finefc weather imaginable, 

 and in viewing, as I advanced, channels and pieces 

 of water without end, formed by a multitude of 

 iflands, which Teemed at a diftance part of the Con- 

 tinent, and to ftop the river in his courfe, thofe de- 

 lightful fcenes which were perpetually varying like 

 the fcenes of a theatre, and which one would think 

 had been contrived on purpofe for the pleafure of 

 travellers I had, however, fome amends made me 

 by the lingular fight of an Archipelago, become, 

 in fome fort, a Continent, and by the conveniency 

 of taking the air in my cariole, on channels lying 



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