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sex and of three (1) persons of the female sex. Some 

 silver and copper coins were also found, which with 

 these mouldering remains of humanity, were deposited, 

 under lock and key in a wooden box ; and, in Septem- 

 ber 1878, the whole was placed in a small but sub- 

 stantial stone structure, in the court of the Jesuit 

 Barracks, known as the " Eegimental Magazine, " 

 pending their delivery for permanent disposal to Rev. 

 Pere Sachez, Superior of the Jesuits Order in Quebec. 



In May, 1879, on opening this magazine, it was 

 found that the venerable bones, box and all had disap- 

 peared, the staple of the padlock on the door having 

 been forced. By whom and for what purpose, the rob- 

 bery ? There is the puzzle. 



Walk on, Ladies and Gentlemen, and view with the 

 Professor's eyes the adjoining public edifice, which 

 stood here in 1749, the Eecollet Convent, " a spacious 

 building," says Kalm, " two stories high, with a large 

 orchard and kitchen garden." 



a fever contracted in attending on some of the passengers 

 brought here that summer by the French ship Saint- Andre*. 



3° Frere Jean Liegeois, scalped 29th May, 1655, by the 

 Agniers at Sillery — the historian Ferland assigns as the pro- 

 bable spot, the land on which the late Lieutenant-Governor 

 Caron built his Mansion " Clermont " now occupid by Col. 

 Ferd. Turnbull). The remains of this missionary, when 

 excavated, were headless — which exactly agrees with the 

 entry in the Jesuits 1 Journal, May, 1655, which states that 

 Jean Liegeois was scalped ; his head cut off and left at Sil- 

 lery, while his mutilated body, discovered the next day by 

 the Algonquins, the allies of the French, was brought to Sillery 

 (probably to the Jesuits' residence, the same solid old struc- 

 ture close to the foundations of the Jesuits' chapel and 

 monument at the foot of the Sillery Hill, which many here 

 have seen), from whence it was conveyed to the Lower Town 

 in a boat and escorted to the Jesuits' College, with the 

 ceremonies of the R. C. Church. 



(1) Ihree Nuns of the Hotel-Dieu Convent, according to 

 authorities quoted by Mr. Faucher, were buried in the vault 

 (caveau)of the Jesuits' Chapel. The sister-hood had been 

 allowed the use of a wing of the Jesuits' College, where they 



