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look after that of the Soldiers, by preventing the 

 Diforders they might commit in their Quarters. 



Commonly the Troops are quarter'd upon the In- 

 habitants of the Cotes > or Seignories of Canada^ from 

 OHober to May. The Mailer of the Houfe furnifhes 

 his Military Guefts only with Utenfils, and impioys 

 him all the while at the rate of ten Sous a Day befides 

 his Vi&uals, in the cutting of Wood, grubbing up 

 of (Grounds , rooting out Stumps , or the threfh- 

 ing of Corn in a Barn. The Captain gets likewife 

 by their work ; for to make 5 em difcount the half of 

 their pay to him, she orders 'em to come thrice a 

 Week to exercife their Arms at his Quarters. Now, 

 their Habitations being diftant four or five Arpents 

 from one another, and one Cote or Seignory being 

 two or three Leagues in Front, the Soldiers choofe 

 rather to give fho Captain a fpill, than to walk fo far 

 in the Snow and the Dirt : And the Captain takes 

 it Very confciendoufly, upon the plea that Volenti 

 pon fit injuria. As for fuch Soldiers as are good 

 Tradefmen, he's fure of putting their whole pay in 

 his Pocket, by vertueof a Licence that he gives ? em 

 to work in the Towns, or any where elfe. In fin?, 

 mcii of the Officers marry in this Country, but God 

 knows what fort of Marriages they make, in taking 

 Girls with a Dowry, confifting of eleven Crowns, # 

 Cock, a Hen, an Ox, a Cow, and fometimes a 

 Calf. I knew fever al young Women, whofe Lov- 

 ers, after denying the Fad, and proving before the 

 Judges the fcandaious Converfation of their Miftret 

 fes, were forc'd upon the perfwafion of the Eccle? 

 fiafthh to fwaliow the bitter Pill, and take the very 

 fame Girls in Marriage. Some Officers indeed marry 

 well, but there are few fuch. The occafion of their 

 marrying (b- readily in that Country, proceeds froh} 

 the difficulty of converfing with the foft Sex. After 

 a Man has made four Vifics to a young Woman, he 

 is obliged to unfold his Mind to her Father and Mo- 



