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with this difference that the Hair is left upon the skins and the addition of a capuchon sewed to their shirt. In this slinght covering very often defective in Size and besmeared with an oily nastiness which renders it still less defensive for the cold, they will brave the severest weather upon this extensive and open lake without experiencing those direful effects to this extensive which they are imminently exposed: their dress is seldom susceptible of the least ornament. Those who can afford a double dress in winter will sleep sound upon this open lake, without feeling the effects of the severest weather[.] Those of them who frequent this Establishment transfer a few Iron works to their Relatives farther off at I do not know, how much P. Cent advance. Indeed the venders are never satisfied, for so long as the article lasts, as every time that the vender meets with his customer after a few months absence, he always advances new pretensions in order to procure any

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