with an ease that indicated a frequent practice, and then devoured it in an instant, without taking out its intrails. The archbishop ask'd her a great many questions, to which she made the same answers that she had before made to others, not forgetting the adventure of a negroe girl, the companion of her journey, who has been seen since, but whom they have not bean able hitherto to apprehend. The sisters told us, that for some time past, they have been endeavouring to accustom her to our ordinary food, in spite of the disgust of her stomach, to cooked victuals and bread, which has made her vomit even her blood. They are endeavouring, in a singular way, to make her acquainted with the principles of religion, that she may be soon in a situation to receive the first sacrament.
No. V.
MAdame Duplessis de St. Helene, a native of Paris, but who has been now 46 years a nun in the Hotel Dieu of Quebec in Canada, and is an intimate acquaintance of mine, sent me a present which came to my hand in the year 1752.
