1^0 Augujl 1749, 



laGaltJfonniere^ governor-general o^ Canada^ 

 granted me leave to fee this nunnery likewife, 

 where no man is allowed to enter, without 

 his leave, which is an honour he feldom 

 confers on any body. The abbefs led me 

 and M. Gauhhier through all the apart- 

 ments, accompanied by a great number of 

 nuns. Moil of the nuns here are of noble 

 families and one was the daughter of a 

 governor. Many of them are old, but there 

 are likevvife feme very young ones among 

 them, who looked very well. They feemed 

 all to be more polite than thofe in the 

 other nunnery. Their rooms are the fame 

 as in the laft place, except fome additional 

 furniture in their cells; the beds are hung 

 with blue curtains; there are a couple of 

 fmall bureaux, a table between them and 

 fome pidtures on the walls. There are 

 however no iloves in any cell. But thofe 

 halls and rooms, in which they are affem- 

 bled together, and in which the fick ones 

 ]y, are fupplied with an iron flove. The 

 number of nuns is indeterminate here, and I 

 faw a great number of them. Here are 

 like wife feme probationers preparing for 

 their reception among the nuns, A num- 

 ber of little girls are fent hither by their 

 parents, to be inftruded by the nuns in the 

 principles of the chrillian religion, and in 



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