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Coucy-le-Castel — The country seat of Hon. Judge Taschereau. 



Hessle Grove " " of J. H. Botterell. 



Hazelhurst " " of A. F. Ashmead 



Kingfield " "of George Holmes Parke. 



Villa Mastai " " of Hon. A. C. E.P.Landry. 



Londesir " "of Sir L. Napoleon Casault. 



The above are the most noted country-seats round Quebec ; 

 there are several others in the environs, most picturesquely 

 located and affording striking views of the city. 



THE PLAINS OF ABRAHAM. 



No spot in the environs of Quebec is more calculated 

 to attract the attention of tourists than the lofty plateau, 

 where the English and French armies met in deadly 

 encounter one murky September morning in 1759. 

 Parkman, Casgrain, Bancroft, Warburton, Smith, Haw- 

 kins, Garneau, Ferland, Beatson, Miles, and other 

 historians have vied with one another to furnish graphic 

 accounts of this famous battle ; the plains, covering 

 about 32 acres, were called after an old Scotchman, 

 Abraham Martin, described in old titles as " Maltre 

 Abraham Martin dit l'Ecossais," pilot on the St Lawrence 

 to the French King. 



The area is bounded to the south by the summit ■ of 

 the cape overlooking the St Lawrence ; to the west, by 

 the Sillery woods ; to the north, by the St Louis road ; 

 and to the east, by a loftier plateau, extending to the 

 foot of the present citadel ; formerly, the plains are 

 supposed to have comprised to the north the whole of 

 the intervening expanse as far as the Ste Foye road, 

 and even beyond. 



