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vacant. Part of thefe monks come over 

 from Frauce, 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. Aujiin or fome other, v^^ho 

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

 goes off with it again. 



Auguji the i ith. This morning I took 

 a walk out of town, with the royal phy- 

 /ician M. Gaiilthier, in order to col]e(5l 

 plants, and to fee a nunn^ery at fome diftance 

 from ^ebec. This monaftery which is 

 built very magnificently of flone, lies in a 

 pleafant fpot, furrounded with corn-fields, 

 meadows, and woods, from whence ^ebec 

 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, ths other for 

 women. The 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 phyiick, and take the 

 cloth away when they have eaten, leaving 

 the reft for male fervants. But in the hall 

 where the women are, they ^o all the 

 work that is to be done. The regulation 

 in the hofpital was the fame as in that at 

 ^lebec. To fhew me a particular favour, 

 Jbe bifliop, at the defire of the Marquis 



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