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400 yards north; and it is nbout 500 yards in length. At its com- 

 meTicement, nc«r the centre of the race course, the elevation is 371 

 feet above the liiver St. Lawrence. From this point there is almost 

 a gradual rise for a distance of 400 yards, at which point the elevation 

 is 303 feet; showing a rise of 32 feet in a distance of 400 yards. From 

 tliis point to the end of the line, the différence is between the elevations 

 303 and 321, showing a rise of 18 feet in 400 yards, and a total rise 

 of 50 feet in 500 yards. 



We will now examine the levels of the ground to the south of the 

 Grande Allée, between de Salaberry street and a point west of Claire 

 Fontaine. We will draw an imaginary line nearly parallel with the 

 Eiver St. Lawrence, about 350 yards north. The length of the line, 

 is about 400 yards. Commencing at the Quebec gaol, the elevation is 

 321 feet, and proceeding along the line at intervals of 200 feet 

 the figures are 303, 313, 301, 296, 307, 315. On another line parallel 

 with this, 125 yards from the Grande Allée, the figures are 301, 304, 

 311, 310, 310, 311. The ground in this direction, nearer to the 

 river, is still more uneven. Here we find levels at a distance of 200 

 feet, varying between 225 and 285 feet ; a dilïorence of GO feet, in 200 

 feet. 



The ground to-day between Claire Fontaine and the gaol is very 

 uneven, especially at a distance of about 150 yards from the river. At 

 one place, probably 150 yards from the gaol, there is a hillock, and this 

 is no doubt the "petite colline" referred to in the journal of the French 

 army.'' "Les deux armées séparées par une petite colline se canonnaient 

 "depuis environ une heure." 



This "petite colline" which separated the two ajmies could not 

 have been the hill upon which the gaol is situated, because the context 

 explains, that the English occupied, an eminence. " L'éminence sur 

 laquelle la nôtre était rangée en bataille dominait, dans quelques points 

 celle qu'occupait les Anrjlais." 



^lention is also made in the journal of the French army, which has 

 already been quoted, of the inequality of the ground between the two 

 armies, and this appears to agree with the descriptions of the ground 

 here given. 



Captain Knox speaks of the ground upon which the army halted 

 after its march towards the town in files, as being an " even piece of 

 '■ ground which ^Ir. Wolfe had made choice of." The most even piece 

 of ground that I find described on Major Holland's plan, is between the 

 Grande Allée and the St. Foyc or St. John's Road. Drawing a line 

 jarallel with this road 100 yards south, from a point at right angles 



