. Travels into North America [microform] : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general : with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. Natural history; Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. 354 mini iilHilill^ll t } i!l;l X' 'I ,1 . I ) ! I. September 17*49. (hivers in the air. The walls of the houfes here are entirely made of this flate \ and like- wife the
. Travels into North America [microform] : containing its natural history, and a circumstantial account of its plantations and agriculture in general : with the civil, ecclesiastical and commercial state of the country, the manners of the inhabitants, and several curious and important remarks on various subjects. Natural history; Natural history; Natural history; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles; Sciences naturelles. 354 mini iilHilill^ll t } i!l;l X' 'I ,1 . I ) ! I. September 17*49. (hivers in the air. The walls of the houfes here are entirely made of this flate \ and like- wife the chimnics, thofe places excepted which arc expofed to the greateft fire, where they place pieces of grey rock-ftone, mixed with a deal of glimmer^ The mountains near Petite Riviere confift merely of a grey rock-ftone, which is entirely the fame with that which I defcribed near the lead-mines of bay St. PauL The foot of thefe mountains confifts of one of the lime-flate kinds. A great part of the Canada mountains of grey rock-ftone ftand on a kind ' of flate, in the fame manner as the grey rocks of JVeJi'Gothland in Sweden. Sept. 6th. They catch eels and porpefTes here, at a certain feafon of the year, viz, at the end of September, and durin^g the whole month of OBober, The eels come up the river at that time, and are caught in the manner I have be^ fore defcribed. They are followed by the por- pefTes, which feed upon them. The greater the quantity of eels is, the greater is likewiie the number of porpefTes, which are caught in the following manner. When the tide ebbs in the river, the porpefTes commonly go down along the fides of the river, catching the eels which they find there. The inhabitants of this place therefore ftick little twigs, or branches with leaves, into the river, in a curve line or arch, the ends of which look towards the (hore, but ftand at fome diftance from it, leaving a paflage there. The branches ftand about two feet diftant from each other. When the por- pe
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