144 -ugu 1749. 



vice performed by priefts, who are ap- 

 pointed by the biihop ; and the land-rent 

 only belongs to the. Jefoits. Neither the 

 priefts nor the Jefuits carry on any trade, 

 with furs and /kins, leaving that entirely 

 to the merchants. 



THIS afternoon I vifited the building 

 called the Seminary, where all the priefts 

 live in common. They have a great houfe, 

 built of ftone, with walks in it, and rooms 

 on each fide. It is feveral ftories high, 

 and clofe to it is a fine garden, full of all 

 forts of fruit-trees and pot-herbs, and di- 

 vided by walks. The profpect from hence 

 is the fineft in Quebec. The priefts of the 

 feminary are not much inferior to the Je- 

 fuits in civility; and therefore I fpent my 

 time very agreeably in their company. 



THE priefts are the fecond and moil nu- 

 merous clafs of the clergy in this country;; 

 for moft of -the churches, both in towns 

 and villages (the Indian converts excepted) 

 are ferved by priefts. A few of them are 

 likewife miffionaries. In Canada are two 

 fe miner ies ; one in Quebec > the other in 

 Montreal. The priefts of the feminary in 

 Montreal MS of the order of St. Sulpitius, 

 and fupply only the congregation on the 

 ifle of Montreal, and the town of the fame 

 name. At all the other churches in Ca- 



