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flowed 'them, and the right of hunting and flming 3 

 which is common to every one, 



After all, it is a little their own fault if they are 

 ever expofed to want the land is good almoft every 

 where, and agriculture does not in the lead derogate 

 from their quality. How many gentlemen through- 

 put all our provinces would envy the lot of the Am- 

 ple inhabitants of Canada, did they but know it ? 

 'And can thofe who languifh here in a fhameful in- 

 digence, be excufed for refufing to embrace a pro- 

 feffion, which the corruption of manners and the 

 mod falutary maxims has alone degraded from 

 its ancient dignity ? There is not in the world a 

 more wholefome climate than this no particular 

 cliftemper is epidemical here, the fields, and woods 

 are full of fimples of a wonderful efficacy, arid the 

 trees diftill balms of an excellent quality. Thefe 

 advantages ought at lead to engage thofe whofe 

 birth providence has caft in this country to remain 

 in it but incondancy, averfion to a regular and af- 

 fiduous labour, and a fpirit of independence, have 

 ever carried a great many young people out of it, 

 and prevented the colony from being peopled. 



Thefe, Madam, are the defects with which the 

 French Canadians are, with the greater! ju dice, re- 

 proached. The fame may like wife be faid of the 

 Jpdians. , One would imagine that the air they 

 breathe in this immenfe continent contributes to it ; 

 but the example and frequent intercourfe with its 

 natural inhabitants are more than diffident to con-^ 

 dit ute this character. Our Creoles are likewife ac-? 

 cufed of great avidity in amading, and indeed they 

 do things with this view, which could hardly be be- 

 lieved if they were not feen. The journeys they un- 

 $er£ake , the fatigues they undergo , the dangers to 



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