398 TRAVELS THROUGH 'LOWER CANADA. 
the mercury sometimes rises to 96°. There is 
a great difference, however,, in the weather at 
this season in different years : during the whole 
of the time that I was in the country, I never 
observed the thermometer higher than 88°; for 
the greatest part of the months of July and 
August it was not higher than 80°, and for 
many days together it did not rise beyond 65°, 
between Quebec and Montreal. 
The fall of the year is a most agreeable sea¬ 
son in Canada, as well as the summer. 
It is observed, that there is in general a dif¬ 
ference of about three weeks in the length of 
the winter at Montreal and at Quebec, and of 
course in the other seasons. When green 
peas, strawberries, &c. were entirely gone at 
Montreal, wc met with them in full season at 
Quebec. 
