. 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. '" â â !â li I'i 29S Augiif. 1749. tiire in their cells; the beds are hung with blue curtains j there are a couple of fmall bureaux, a table between them, and Ibmc pi
. 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. '" â â !â li I'i 29S Augiif. 1749. tiire in their cells; the beds are hung with blue curtains j there are a couple of fmall bureaux, a table between them, and Ibmc pic- tures on the wails. There are however no ftoves in any cell. But thofe halls and rooms, in which they are airembled together, and in vi'hich the fick ones ly, are fuppHcd with an iron (love. The number of nuns is indeterminate here, and I faw a -uimber of them. Here are likewife fonie .obationers preparing for their reception among the nuns. A number of little girls are fent hither by their parents, to be inflruded by the nuns in the principles of the chriftian religion, and in all forts of ladies work. The convent at a diftance looks Hke a palace, and, as I am told, was founded by a bifliop, who they fay is buried in a part of the church. We botanized till dinner-time in the neigh- bouring meadows, and then returned to the convent to dine with a venerable old father recolet, who officiated here as a prieft. The difhes were all prepared by nuns, and as nume- rous and various as on the tables of great men. There were likewife leveral forts of wine, and many preferves. The reveni>e& of this monaf- tery are fa id to be confideraWe. At the top of the building is a fmall rteeple with a bell. Confidering the large trads of land which the king has given in C4<inada to convents, Jejuits^ priefls, and fevcral families of rank, it leems he has very little left for himfelf. Our common rafp-berries, are fo plentiful here on the hills, near corn-fields, rivers, and brooks, t
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