. 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. If I tl V m ^ 1 i 11 1 I'iin. 242 -^^^«y^ ^749* of wood, or ftone, indlfcritninately, and whlte^ wafLed on the outfide. The other buildings, fach as barns, (tables, &c
. 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. If I tl V m ^ 1 i 11 1 I'iin. 242 -^^^«y^ ^749* of wood, or ftone, indlfcritninately, and whlte^ wafLed on the outfide. The other buildings, fach as barns, (tables, &c, were all of wood. The ground next to the river was turned either into corn-fields, or meadows. Novsr and then we perceived churches on bpth fides of the river, the fleeples of which were generally on that fide of the church which looked towards the river, becaufe they are not obliged here to put the fteeples on the weft end of the churches. With- in fix French miles of Montreal we faw fever^il iflands of diifererit fizes on the river, and mod of them were inhabited 5 and if fome of them were without houfes on^them, they were fore- times turned into corn-fields, but generally into ^Beadows. We faw no mountains, hills, rocks, or ftones to-day, the country being flat through- put, and confifting pf pure mould. All the farms in Canada ftand feparate from pach other, fo that each farmer has his pof- feffions entirely diftindl f om thofe of his neigh- bour. Each churchy it is true, has a little vil- lage near it j but that confifti chiefly of the par. ibnage, a fchpol for the boys and girls of the place, and of the houfes of tradefmen, but rare- ly of farm^houfes s and ?f that was the cafe, yet their fields vyere feparated. The farm-houres hereabout? are generally built all along the rifingl banks of the riVer,'either clofe to the water or at fome diftance from, it, and about three or four ^rpcns fron\ each other. To fome farms are annexed frnall orchards: but they are in general
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