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Company of Guards, and the particular Govern- 

 ment of the Fort. Over and above this Iricome, 

 the Farmers of the Beaver-Skins make him a Pre- 

 fentof a thoufand Crowns a year ; his Wines and 

 all his other Provifiom imported from France pay no 

 Fraight; not to mention that by certain ways and 

 means he fucks as much Money out of the Coun- 

 try, as all the above- mentioned Articles amount to. 

 The Intendanfhas eighteen thoufand Livres a year j 

 but the Lord knows what he makes otherwife : 

 I have no mind to touch there, for fear of being 

 rank'd among thofe Detractors , who fpeak the 

 truth too fincerely. The Bifhops Incomes are fc 

 fmall, that if the King were not gracioufiy pleas'd 

 to add to his Bifhoprick fome other Benefices in 

 France , that Reverend Prelate would be reduc'd 

 to as fhort Commons, as a hundred of his Chara- 

 cter are in the Kingdom of Naples. The Major of 

 Quebec has fix hundred Crowns a year, the Gover- 

 nour of Trois Rivieres has a thoufand ; and the Go- 

 vernourof Mowed is allowed two thoufand, A Cap- 

 tain has a hundred and twenty Livres a Month ; a Lieu- 

 tenant ninety Livres, a reformed Lieutenant is al- 

 lowed but forty, and a common Soldier's pay is fix 

 Sous a Day, of the current Money of the Country. 



The People repofea great deal of confidence in 

 the Clergy in this Country as well as eifewhere. 

 Here the outward fhew of Devotion is llri£Hy oh- 

 ferv'd, for the People dare not abfent from the great 

 MafTesand Sermons, without a lawful Excufe. But 

 after all, 'tis at the time of Divine Service, that the 

 married Women and Maids give their humours a 

 full loofe, as being affur'd that their Husbands and 

 Mothers are bufie at Church. The Priefb call Peo- 

 ple by their names in the Pulpit; they prohibit un- 

 der the pain of Excommunication, the reading of 

 Romances and Plays, as well as the ufe of Masks, 

 and playing ac Ombre or Lanfquenet, Thejefu- 



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