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IX. THE houfe of the intendant, a pub- 

 lic building, whofe fize makes it fit for a 

 palace. It is covered with tin, and ftands 

 in a fecond lower town, fituated fouth- 

 ward upon the river St. Charles. It has a 

 large and fine garden on its north fide. In 

 this houie all the deliberations concerning 

 this province, are held ; and the gentlemen 

 who have the management "of the police 

 and the civil power meet here, and the in- 

 tendant generally prefides. In affairs of 

 great confequence the governor-general is 

 likewife here. On one fide of this houfe 

 is the ftore-houfe of the crown, and on the 

 other the prifon. 



MOST of the houfes in Quebec are built 

 of ftone, and in the upper city they are 

 generally but one ftory high, the public 

 buildings excepted. I faw a few wooden 

 houfes in the town, but they muft not be 

 rebuilt when decayed. The houfes and 

 churches in the city are not built of bricks, 

 but the black lime-flates of which the 

 mountain confifts, whereon Quebec (lands. 

 When thefe lime-flates are broke at a good 

 depth in the mountain, they look very com- 

 pact at firft, and appear to have no fhivers, 

 or lamella, at all ; but after being expofed 

 a while to the air, they feparate into thin 

 leaves, Thefe flates are foft, and eafily 

 G 4 cut ; 



