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church are gilt. The seats are very fine." (This church, 

 now a Basalica Minor, was begun in 1647 — destroyed 

 by bomb shells during the siege of 1759 and rebuilt.) 



" The Jesuits' Church is built in the form of a cross, 

 and has a round steeple. This is the only church that 

 has a clock 



This little church, of which the corner-stone was laid 

 by the Governor General, the Marquis de Tracy, on 

 31st May, 1666, existed until 1807. The oldest inhab- 

 itant can yet recall, from memory, the spot where it 

 stood, even if we had not the excellent drawing made 

 of it with a dozen of other Quebec views, by an officer 

 in Wolfe's fleet, Captain Eichard Short. It stood on the 

 site recently occupied by the shambles, in the Upper 

 Town, facing the Clarendon Hotel. Captain Short's 

 pencil bears again testimony to the exactitude, even in 

 minute things, of Kalm's descriptions : his Quebec 

 horses, harnessed one before the other to carts. You see 

 in front of the church, in Captain Short's sketch, three 

 good sized horses drawing a heavily laden two wheeled 

 cart, harnessed one before the other. The church was 

 also used, until 1807, as a place of worship for Protes- 

 tants. Be careful not to confound the Jesuits' Church 

 with the small chapel in the interior of their college 

 (the old Jesuit Barracks) contiguous thereto. This latter 

 chapel had been commenced on the 11th July, 1650. 

 The Seminary Chapel, and Ursulines Church, after the 

 destruction by shot and shell, in 1759, of the large E. 

 C. Cathedral, were used for a time as parish-churches. 

 From beneath the chief altar of the Jesuits' Church 

 was removed, on the 14th May, 1807, the small leaden 

 box containing the heart of the founder of the Ursu- 

 lines' Convent, Madame de la Peltrie, previously depo- 

 sited there in accordance with the terms of her Last 

 Will. 



You can see, Ladies and Gentlemen, that the pick- 

 axe and mattock of the " bande noire " who robbed our 

 city- walls of their stones, and demolished the Jesuits' 



