McKenzie, James. Some Account of the King's Posts, the Labrador Coast, and the Island of Anticosti by an Indian Trader Residing there Several Years with a Description of the Natives and the Journal of a trip through those Countries in 1808 by the Same Person. An electronic transcription. MFTP #0017
from which the inhabitants extract the Tan[.]
The Eboulmens are so called from ravages made in former days by an Earthquake of which deep scars are still remaining in the face of those vinerable Hills. Poverty dwells here in her most ragged and emaciated form[.] Hardly any thing but Potatoes will grow on those barren Mountains on which a number of poor people are roosted to toil & starve for three fourths of the year.
Ile aux Coudres lies off the Bay St Paul and Emboulmens about a league[.] It is three Leagues in circumference belongs to the Seminary of Quebec and appears to make the inhabitants live very comfortably[.] These like the people of Orleans are civil & good natured which may be owing to their Priest who keeps them under strict discipline.
In 1762 there were no lands cleared and no houses built at Murray Bay but at present it swarms with Canadians as much as the shallows do with fish in spawning time[.] And as the Habitants of Point Levee & Beauport as well as others living in the immediate vicinity of the seat of Corruption Quebec assume the surly tone and illbred look of the gentry
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