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C&nfiderable fize. In a word, the whole country is 
nothing more than a prodigious heap of barren 
rocks. 
The climate is extremely rigorous. • There is but 
little appearance of fummer before the middle of 
July 3 and, in September, the approach of winter is 
very evident. It has been remarked, that the win- 
ters, within thefe few years, have been lefs fevete 
than they were known heretofore. The caufe of 
fuch an alteration it would be difficult to difcover. 
All along the coad there are many rivers, which 
empty themfelves into the fea ; yet there are but few 
of any confideration, and you mud not imagine that 
the larged: are any thing like what is generally under- 
dood by a river. Cudom has taught us to give 
them this appellation, hut the mod of them are no- 
thing more than broad brooks, or rivulets. As they 
are only drains from the ponds, in dry weather they 
are everywhere fordable' 3 for running upon a folid 
rock, they become broad, without having a bed any 
depth below the furfnce of the banks. 
The fuperficial appearance of this country i$ ex- 
ceedingly unfavourable. What may be hidden in its 
bowels, we cannot pretend to fugged 3 probably it 
may produce fome copper; the rocks, in many places, 
are impregnated with an ore of that relemblanee. 
Something of a horny fubftanee, which is extremely 
tranfparent, and which will fcale out into a multi- 
tude of (mail ffieets, is often found amidd the domes. 
There are both black* and white of this fort, but the 
black is the mod rare. It has been tried in lire, butt 
feemed to be no ways a faded by heat. 
The- 
