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The Abbe, without being too positive, candidly confesses 

 that these new documents are of a nature to seriously 

 impugn the position that he and the Abbe Laverdiere 

 had assumed in placing the tomb of Cham plain in Sous- 

 le-Fort street, in 1866. 



Future antiquaries dealing with the arcana of Stada- 

 cona won't find the occupation a sinecure. 



The whereabouts of Champlain's tomb ! there indeed 

 remains a hard nut to crack ! 



Much esteemed tourist don't get discouraged. Bring 

 the se'pulcre particulier from Sous-le-Fort street, if 

 you so fancy it. Place it in the yard of the Post Office. 

 You can find texts and authorities for each assumption. 

 Be content to add : 



"G-rammatici certant; adhuc sub judice, lis est." 



Sillery, August, 1886. 



The question has been since ably debated by Dr. N. 

 E. Dionne, F. R. S. C. and in an elaborate paper read 

 before the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, 

 on the 12th April, 1883, by Dr. J. Harper, M. A. F. 

 E. I. S. ; the erudite lecturer selected for Champlain's 

 Tomb, the declevity on Mountain Hill, to the east, 

 lower down than the site of Prescott Gate, where until 

 1657, had existed the first cemetery of Quebec, given 

 up that year, on account of the springs of water filtering 

 through the soil. 



An other Richmond entered the field in March last, 

 an industrious searcher of old plans and deeds, Mr. 

 Thos. O'Leary. In a correspondence over his signature 

 in the Quebec Daily Telegraph of the 21st March last, 

 Mr. O'Leary says: " I believe I can substantiate with 

 reasonable proof: — 



That the tower of the Basilica on Buade street is 

 built on the site of Champlain's Chapel, and over the 

 tomb in which his body was placed. 



