Some New 



V O Y AGES 



North- America. 



T O M E I 



LETTER I. 



Dated at the Port of Quebec, Nov, 8. 1685. 



Containing a Defcription of the Pajfage from 

 France to Canada ; with fome Remarks upon 

 the Coafls, Channels, &c. and the Variation 

 of tht^eedk, 



SIR, 



I am furpris*d to find that a Voyage to the New- 

 World is fo formidable to thofe who are ob- 

 liged to undertake it; for I folemnly proteft that 

 'tis far from being what the World commonly 

 takes it for. 'Tis true, the Paflage is in fome mea- 

 fure long ; but then the hopes of viewing an unf 

 known Country, attones for the tedioufnefs of the 

 Voyage. When we broke ground from Rocbel, I 

 acquainted you with the Reafons that mov'd Mr, 

 le Fevre de la Barre> Governor General of Canada, 

 CO fend the Sieur Mahu > a Canadefe, to France j 

 and at the fame time gave you to know, that he 



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