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vacant. Part of thefe monks come over 

 from France, and part are natives of Canada* 

 There are no other monks in Canada be- 

 fides thefe, except now and then one of the 

 order of St. Auftin or fome other, who 

 comes with one of the king's {hips, but 

 goes off with it again. 



Auguft the nth. THIS morning I took 

 a walk out of town, with the royal phy- 

 fician M. Gaulthier y in order to colled 

 plants, and to fee a nunnery at fome diftance 

 from Quebec. This monaftery which is 

 built very magnificently of ftone, lies in a 

 pleafant fpot, furrounded with corn-fields, 

 meadows, and woods, from whence Quebec 

 and the river St. Lawrence may be feen ; 

 a hofpital for poor old people, cripples, &c. 

 makes part of the monaftery, and is divided 

 into two halls, one for men, the other for 

 womwP sflFhe 51 nuns attend both fexes* 

 with this difference however, that they only 

 prepare the meal for the men and bring it 

 in to them, give them phyfick, and take the 

 cloth away when they have eaten, leaving 

 the reft for male fer-vants. But ^in the hall 

 where the women are, they do all the 

 work that is to be done. The regulation 

 in the hofpital was the fame as in that at 

 H$mbe. To fliew me a particular favour, 

 ihe bifliop, at the defire of the Marquis 

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