JESUITS IN NORTH AMERICA. 

 CHAPTER I. 



1634. 



NOTRE-DAI^IE DES ANGES. 



Quebec in 1634. — Father Le Jeune. — The Mission-House. — Its 

 Domestic Economy. — The Jesuits and their Designs. 



Opposite Quebec lies the tongue of land called 

 Point Levi. One who, in the summer of the year 

 1634, stood on its margin and looked northward, 

 across the St. Lawrence, would have seen, at the 

 distance of a mile or more, a range of lofty cliffs, 

 rising on the left into the bold heights of Cape Dia- 

 mond, and on the right sinking abruptly to the bed 

 of the tributary river St. Charles. Beneath these 

 cliffs, at the brink of the St. Lawrence, he would 

 have descried a cluster of warehouses, sheds, and 

 wooden tenements. Immediately above, along the 

 verge of the precipice, he could have traced the 

 outlines of a fortified work, with a flagstaff, and a 

 few small cannon to command the river ; while, at 

 the only point where Nature had made the heights 

 accessible, a zigzag path connected the warehouses 



and the fort. 



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