. 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. i â â ' } I. I ^44- Auguji 1749. The country on both fides was very delight- ful to-day, and the fine ftate of its cultivation fidded greatly to the beauty of the fcene. I
. 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. i â â ' } I. I ^44- Auguji 1749. The country on both fides was very delight- ful to-day, and the fine ftate of its cultivation fidded greatly to the beauty of the fcene. It could really be called a village, beginning at Montreal/And ending at ^el?ec, which is a dillance of more than one hundred and eighty miles; for the farm-boufcs are never above five arpcns, and fometimcS brt three, afunder, a few places excepted. The profped is exceed- ingly beautiful, when the river goes on for fome pities together in a ftrait line, becaufe it then ifhorten^ the diftances between the houfes, and makes them form exactly one continued village. " All the women in the country, without ex- ception, wear caps of fomc kind or other. Their jackets are fhort, and fo are their petticoats, which fcarce reach down to the middle cf their legs; and they have a fiWer crofs hanging down on the breaft. In general they are very kborl- otts; however, I faw fome, who, like the £k^- /?//?> women in the colonies, djd nothing but prattle all the day. When they have any thing to do within doors, they (efpecially the girls) commonly fing fongs, in which the word? [Amour and Ca^ur are very frequent. In the country if is uiual, that when the hufband re- ceives a vifit from perfons of rank, and dine^ with them, his wit^ ftands behind and ferves him; but in the townS;, the ladies are more iiftinguiflied, and would willingly alfume an ^qual, if not a fuperior, power to their hui- bands. When they go out of doors they wear long cloaks, which cover all their other clothes, and
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