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the Spring, and two in the Autumn. Now as of- 

 ten as j:he Tide comes in, the Eels looking out for 

 fhallow places , and making towards the Shoar, 

 croud in among the Hurdles, which hinder "em af- 

 terwards to retire with the Ebb-water ; upon that 

 they areforc'd to bury themfelvesin theaL .<*men- 

 tioned Ingines, which arefometimes fo ove^rani'd, 

 that they break. When 'tis low water, tl e Inha- 

 bitants takeout thefe Eels, which are cer *r ly th@ 

 biggeft, and the longeft in the World. They fait 

 them up in Barrels, where they'll keep a whole year 

 without fpoiling : And indeed they give an admira- 

 ble relifh in all Sauces ; nay, there's nothing that 

 the Council of Quebec defires more, than that this 

 Fifhery fhould be equally plentiful in all years. 



Trois Rivieres is a little paltry Town, feated in 

 the Latitude of forty Degrees'; ? tis not fortified 

 neither with Stone, nor Pales. The River to which 

 it owes its name, takes its rife an hundred Leagues 

 to the North- Weft, from the greateft ridge of 

 Mountains in the Univerfe. The Algonkins who are 

 at prefent an Erratick Con of Savages, and, like the 

 Arabs, have no feded Abode j that People, I fay, 

 feldom ftraggle far from the banks of this River,, 

 upon which they have excellent Beaver-hunting. In 

 former times the Iroyueje cut off three fourths of that 

 Nation; but they have notdar'd to renew their in- 

 curfions, lince the French have Peopled the Coun- 

 tries that lie higher up upon the River of St Lau- 

 rence. IcalPdTVo/j Rivieres a little Town, with refe- 

 rence to the paucity of the Inhabitants; though at 

 the fame time they are very rich, and live in ftately 

 Houfes. The King has made it the Refidence of 

 a Governor, who would die for Hunger, if he 

 did not trade with the Natives for Beavers, when 

 his fmali allowance is out : Befides, a Man that 

 would live there, muft be of the like temper with 

 a Dog, or at leaft he muft nkz pkafure in fcratch- 



