soS Augujl 1749. 



have employed a grey lime-ftone. They 

 have not made any vi^alls towards the vi^ater 

 iide, but nature Teems to have worked for 

 them, by placing a rock there which it is 

 impoffible to alcend. All the rifing land 

 thereabouts is likewife fo well planted v/ith 

 cannon, that it feems impoflible for an 

 enemy's fhips or boats to come to the town 

 without running into imminent danger of 

 being funk. On the land fide the town is 

 likewife guarded by high mountains fo that 

 nature and art have combined to fortify 

 it. 



^tebcc was founded by its former go* 

 vernor, Samuel de Champlain, in the year 

 1608, We are informed by hiftory, that 

 its rife was very flow. In 1629 towards 

 the end of Jiify it was taken by two 

 EngiiJJomen Lewis and Thomas Kerk, by 

 capitulation, and furrendcred to them by the 

 above mentioned de Champlain. At that 

 time, Canada and ^ebec were wholly 

 destitute of provifions, fo that they looked 

 upon the Englifl^ more as their deliverers, 

 than their enemies. The abovementioned 

 Kerks^ were the brothers of the Engiijh 

 admiral David Kerk, who lay with his 

 fleet fomewhat lower in the river. In the 

 year 1632, the French got the town of 

 §luebec, and all Canada returned to them 



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