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LETTER XXVI. 
(pfthe Soil and Productions of Lower Canada . 
'—Observations on the Manufacture of Sugar 
from the Maple-tree.—Of the Climate of 
Lower Canada—Amusements of People of 
all Descriptions during Winter. — Gariolcs.— 
Manner of guarding against the Cold.—Great 
piardiness of the Horses.—State of the River 
St. Lawrence on the Dissolution of Winteri — 
Rapid Progress of Vegetation during Spring. 
f—Agreeahletiess of the Summer and Autumn 
Seasons, 
Quebec. 
THE eastern part of Lower Canada, be¬ 
tween Quebec and the gulph of St. Lawrence, 
js mountainous; between Quebec and the 
inouth oftheXJtawas River also a few scatter¬ 
ed mountains are to be met with; but higher 
up the River St. Lawrence the face of the coun¬ 
try is flat. 
The soil, except where small tracts of stony 
and sandy land intervene, consists principally 
of a loose dark coloured earth, and of the depth 
of ten or twelve inches, below which there is a 
bed of cold clay. This earth towards the sur¬ 
face is extremely fertile, of which there cannot 
