Category: Travel Writing
The author of this account of North-America is a Swede, and therefore seems always to shew a peculiar way of thinking in regard to the English in general, and in regard to the first proprietors and inhabitants of Philadelphia in particular. The French, the natural enemies of t...
The author of this account of North-America is a Swede, and therefore seems always to shew a peculiar way of thinking in regard to the English in general, and in regard to the f...
2. Part 2The soldiery enjoy such advantages here, as they are not allowed in every part of the world. Those who formed the garrison of this place, had a very plentiful allowance from the...
3. Part 3The soil about fort St. Frederic is said to be very fertile, on both sides of the river; and before the last war a great many French families, especially old soldiers, have sett...
4. Part 4The difference between the manners and customs of the French in Montreal and Canada, and those of the English in the American colonies, is as great as that between the manners o...
5. Part 5Monsr. Pontarion, another priest, had made thermometrical observations in Montreal, from the beginning of this year 1749. He made use of Reaumur’s thermometer, which he placed s...
6. Part 6August the 5th. This morning, we continued our journey by rowing, the contrary wind hindering us from sailing. The appearance of the shores, was the same as yesterday; they were...
7. Part 7August the 7th. Ginseng is the current French name in Canada, of a plant, the root of which, has a very great value in China [33]. It has been growing since times immemorial in...
8. Part 8The civility of the inhabitants here is more refined than that of the Dutch and English, in the settlements belonging to Great Britain; but the latter, on the other hand, do not...
9. Part 9The lands, which we passed over, were every where laid out into corn-fields, meadows, or pastures. Almost all round us the prospect presented to our view farms and farm-houses,...
10. Part 10August the 17th. This day I went to see the nunnery of the Ursulines, which is disposed nearly in the same way as the two other nunneries. It lies in the town and has a very fin...
11. Part 11We went into that branch of the river which flows on the west side of the isle of Orleans, it being the shortest. It is reckoned about a quarter of a French mile broad, but ship...
12. Part 12The sulphureous springs (if I may so call them) are at the foot of the mountain, which contains the silver, or lead ore. Several springs join here, and form a little brook. The...
13. Part 13Bows and arrows, javelins and harpoons, are their arms. With the last they kill whales, and other large marine animals. The points of their arrows and harpoons are sometimes mad...
14. Part 14This afternoon we saw three remarkable old people. One was an old Jesuit, called father Joseph Aubery, who had been a missionary to the converted Indians of St. François. This s...
15. Part 15Prepared roebuck skins, chevreuils passés. Unprepared ditto, chevreuils verts. Tanned ditto, chevreuils tanés. Bears, ours. Young bears, oursons. Otters, loutres. Pecans. Cats,...
16. Part 16Beaver-flesh is eaten not only by the Indians, but likewise by the Europeans, and especially the French, on their fasting days; for his holiness, in his system, has ranged the b...
17. Part 17[40] This amount seems to be highly probable, for we find in Marco Paolo, that Kublai-Khan, one of the successors of Genghizkhan, after the conquest of the southern part of Chin...