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Streights of La Maire

Jany 1769

before we gaind even a near view of the places we intended to go to the weather had all this time been vastly fine much like a sunshiny day in May so that neither heat nor cold was troublesome to us nor were there any insects to molest us which made me think the traveling much better than what I had before met with in Newfoundland

Soon after we saw the plains we arrivd at them but found to our great disapointment that what we took for swathe was no better than low bushes of birch about reaching a mans middle these were so stubborn that they could not be bent out of the way but at every step the leg must be lifted over them & on being plac'd again on the ground was almost sure to sink above the anckles in bog no traveling could possibly be worse than this which seemd to last about a mile beyond which we expected to meet with bare rock for such we had seen from the tops of lower hills as we came this I particularly was infinitely eager to arrive at expecting there to find the alpine plants of a countrey so curious our people tho rather fatigued were yet in good spirits so we pushd on intending to rest

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