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der which we ourfelves labour. What comfort 

 would it have been to a Creole of Martinico, who 

 had arrived in France for the firfttime during the hard 

 froft in 17P9, fhould I, who had juft then returned 

 from Quebec, have told him that the cold he now 

 felt was (till inferior to that of Canada ? I mould 

 however have told him truth, and could have fup- 

 ported it by good evidences ; but he might very- 

 well have anfwered me, that he found the cold in 

 France not a whit the lefs piercing, by being infor- 

 med it was (till more fo in Canada. 



But as foon as the month of May begins, we have 

 reafon to change our language, the mildnefs of this 

 latter part of the fpring being by fo much the more 

 agreeable, as it fucceeds fo rigorous a feafon. The 

 heat of the fummer, which in lefs than four months, 

 mews us both the feed and the crop *, the ferenity 

 of autumn, during which there is aferies of fine wea- 

 ther, very feldom to be feen, in the greater!: part of the 

 provinces of France : all which, joined to the li- 

 berty which is enjoyed in this country, makes many 

 find their flay here as agreeable as in the kingdom 

 where they were born, and it is certain that our Ca- 

 nadians would without hefnation give it the prefe- 

 rence. 



After all, thefe colds fo long and fo fevere, are 

 attended with inconveniencies which can never 

 thoroughly be remedied. I reckon in the firft place 

 the difficulty of feeding the cattle, which during the 



* The ground is tilled in Autumn, and the feed fown be- 

 tween the middle of April and the tenth of May. The crop 

 is cut down between the 15th of A u gull and 20th of September. 

 The lands which are not tilled till the Spring yield fmaller crops, 

 becaufe the nitrous particles of the fnow are not fo well able to 

 penetrate into them. 



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