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which were discovered, in 1866, by the Abbe Laverdiere 

 in the Seminary Garden, in rear and facing the entrance 

 to the old wing of the Seminary) seem to have been the 

 first structures raised in the Upper-Town. Mountain 

 Hill, Cote Lamontagne, took its name according to 

 some writers, from one Lamontagne, located in the 

 neighborhood ; according to others, from its being the 

 ascent to the mountain on which is sits our pictu- 

 resque town. 



How many gallant French Vice-Eoys ? How many 

 proud English Governors and Admirals have ascended 

 this steep hill, from the era of Champlain to that of 

 Peter Kalm and his learned and accomplished friend 

 Admiral de La Galissonniere, the victor of poor Byng 

 in the Mediterranean ; from the fighting time of 1759, 

 when de Bougainville, de Vauclain, DurelJ, Saunders, 

 Cook, Palliser. Jervis anchored their ships-of-war in 

 our port, to the auspicious day, when the Lord of Lome 

 and the royal Lady by his side were escorted by our 

 citizen-soldiers to their quarters on Cape Diamond ? 



If it should be superfluous to retrace the mode of. 

 reception extended to the envoys of Downing Street in 

 our day, possibly, many of you, would not be averse to 

 seeing lifted from the past the veil of years, and recall- 

 ing some of the pageants, with which the colony greeted 

 the proud marquisses and counts, who ascended Moun- 

 tain Hill, accredited representatives of the Grand 

 Monarque, who swayed martial France. 



Shall we then accompany the Professor down Moun- 

 tain Hill and witness the preparations made on the 

 15th August, 1749, for the reception of the new Gov- 

 ernor, the Marquis de La Jo?iquidre, who is to replace 

 Amiral de La Galissonniere. 



" About eight o'clock, says Kalm, the chief people 

 in town assembled at the house of Mr. de Vaudreuil, 

 who had lately been nominated Governor of Trois- 



Rivieres, and lived in the Lower Town 



Thither came likewise the Marquis de La Galissonniere, 



