. 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! ( '' :' 'iii'i !;.i 1,1 )M«, I lu m '"'! ! i f\ M. 372 September 1749. which lies tc the S. S. E. of the palace, has got the name of Poiftte de Diamante, or Di
. 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! ( '' :' 'iii'i !;.i 1,1 )M«, I lu m '"'! ! i f\ M. 372 September 1749. which lies tc the S. S. E. of the palace, has got the name of Poiftte de Diamante, or Dia- mond Point. The fmall cracks which divide the ftone, go generally at right angles; the diftarices between them are not always equal. The outfide of the ftratum, or that which is turned towards the other ftratum, is frequently covered with a fine, black, fliining membrane, which looks like a kind (^i a pyrous horn-ftone. In it there is fometimes a yellow pyrites, always lying in fmall grains. I never found petrifac- tions or inpreffjons, or other kinds of ftone in it, hefides thofe I have juft mentioned. AlnioR all the public and private buildings at ^lebcc confiil of this lime-flate; and likewife the walls round the town, and round the monafleries and gardens. It is eafily broken, and cut to the fize wanted. But it has the property of fplitting in- to thiu fl:iivers, parallel to the furface of the flratum from whence they are taken, after lying during one or more years in the air, and expofed to the fun. However, this quality does no da- mage to the walls in which they are placed; fori the ftcnes being laid on purpofe into fuch a pofition that the cracks always run horizontally, the upper ftones prefs fo much upon the lowerl ones, that they can only get craks. outwardly,! and fhiver only on the outfide, without going| further inwards. The fliivers always gro\ thinner^ as the houfes grow older. In order to give my readers fome idea of tbe climate of ^ebcc, and of the differe
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