most of the day in our favour) we got to Murray Bay the fag end of civilized settlements in this direction[.]

The little River the first parish we passed this day is situated at the foot of high perpendicular Rocks and the farms between these and the S^t Lawrence are but small[.] The riches of the people therefore consist in Sugar and Eels with which the mountains and River supply them in great abundance to make amends as it were for confining their fields within such narrow limits. We saw a number of orchards at this place. An Habitant of whom we bought some milk said that some seasons he sold three hundred Bushels of apples and cleared upward of sixty pounds by his orchard[.] The people of Little River having nothing to do after the seasons of making Sugar and fishing eels as well as for collecting their small crop are over than to amuse themselves they pass away the rest of the time as merrily as they can[.] Scarce a man of them but plays the Fiddle pretty well nor a woman who does not dance & sing as if just imported from Paris or Rome[.]

The Parish of the Bay S^t Paul appeared screwed in a Deep valley between high mountains[.] The Land here is fertile and produces good pine

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