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tîiers, whom great Age or Infirmities have deprived of getting 

 their living, are received into this Hofpital, to a certain Number 

 of Beds that are appropiated for this Purpofe, and thirty Nuns 

 are employed to attend them. It is a Copy of tie Hotel Dieu of 

 ^ebecy but to diftinguifh the Nuns, the Bifhop has given them 

 fome particular Regulations, and makes them wear a Silver 

 Crofs upon their Brealls. The greateil Part of them are of good 

 Families, and as they are not of the richeft of the Country, the 

 Bifhop has given Portions to many. 



i^ebec is not regularly fortified, but they have been long 



Of the Fortiû ^^P^^X^^ making it a defeniible Place : 

 J ^ or iji- 'pj^jg Q'^^y j^Qj. g^iy taken in its pre- 



fent Condition. The Port is flanked by two 

 Baftions, which at the higk Tides * are almoft level with the 

 Water, that is to fays about twenty-five Feet high, for the Equi- 

 no6lial Tides rife fo high; A little above the Baftion on the 

 right, they have made a half Baftion in the Rock, and higher 

 up, by the Side of the Gallery of the Fort, there is a Battery of 

 twenty-five Pieces of Cannon. There is alittle fquareFort called 

 the Citadel ftill above this ; and the Ways to go from one Forti- 

 fication to another are very fteep. To the left of the Port, ail 

 along the Road up to the River 6*/; Charles^ there are good Bat- 

 teries of Cannon, and fome Mortars. 



From the Angle of the Citadel, which looks towards the City, 

 they have made an Oreille of a Baftion, from whence they have 

 made a Curtain at right Angles^ which runs to join a very high 

 Cavalier, upon which there is a Mill fortified. Defcending from 

 this Cavalier, we meet, at about the Diftance of Mufket Shot, a 

 lirft Tower with Baftions, and at the fame Diftance from this a 

 fécond. The Defign was to cover all this with a Stone facing, 

 which was to have the fame Angles as the Baftions, and which 

 was to terminate at the End of the Rock over againft the Palace, 

 where there is a little Redoubt, as well as on the Diamond Cape. 

 I know not why this has not been executed. Such was. Madam, 

 pretty near the State of the Place in 171 1, when the 

 fitted out a great Fleet for the Conqueft of Canada^ which 

 failed of Succefs through the Ralhnefs of the Commander, who, 

 contrary to the Advice of his Pilot, came too near the feven 

 Ifles, and loft all his largeft Ships, and three thoufand Men of 

 his beft Tr.o5ps.v /- 



After having mentioned what is moft material in our Capital, I 

 muft fay a Word or tw^o of its Inhabitants ; this is its Beauty. And 

 if upon confideringonly itsHoufes^ Squares, Streets, and public 

 Buildings, we may reduce it to the Rank of the fmalleft Cities 

 of France, the Worth of thofe who inhabit it, fecures it the Title 

 of Capital, 



E I have 



