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a Parallel. There is one Row on the other Side between the 

 Church and the Port ; and at the Turning of Cape Diamond^ 

 there is another pretty long Range of Houfes on the Side of a 

 fmall Bay, which is called the V Anfe défères, (Mother^ s Bay.) This 

 Quarter may be reckoned a Kind of Suburb to the lower City. 



Between this Suburb and the great Street we afcend to the 

 upper City, by a Way fo fteep, that they have been obliged to 

 make Steps, fo that we can only afcend on Foot : But taking 

 the Right Hand Side, they have made a Way which 

 is not fo ileep, and which is bordered by Houfes : 'Tis 

 at the Spot where the two Ways meet, that the upper City be- 

 gins on the Side towards the River St, Laurence ; for there is 

 another lower City on the Side of the River St, Charles, The 

 firll remarkable Building we find to the Right of the firft Side, is 

 the Biihop's Palace : All the Left is bordered with Houfes. 

 Twenty Paces further, we arrive at two pretty large Squares^ or 

 Openings : That on the Left is the Place of Arms, which is 

 before the Fort, where the Governor-General reftdes. The Re- 

 collets areover-agaloft it, and fome pretty good Houfes are built 

 on the other Side of the Square. 



In that on the Right Hand, v/e meetfirfc the Cathedral, which 

 alfo ferves as a Parilh Church to all the City. The Seminary is 

 On one Side, upon the Angle made by the River St, Laurence and 

 the River St, Charles, Over-againft the Cathedral, is the Je- 

 fuits College, and between both there are pretty good Houfes. 

 From the Place of Arms, we enter two Streets, which are croffed 

 by a third, which is entirely taken up by the Church and Con- 

 vent of the Recollets. The fécond Opening has two Defcents 

 to the River St, Charles ; one very fleep on the Side of the Se- 

 minary, where there are few Houfes ; the other, by the Side of 

 thtjefuits Inclofure, which winds very m.uch, and has the Hotel 

 Dieu about the Mid-way, is bordered by fmall Houfes, and ends 

 at the Palace of the Intendant. On the other Side of the Je^ 

 JuUs College, v/here the Church is, there is a pretty long Street, 

 in which are the t/r/^//W/.-— To conclude, all the upper City is 

 built on a Foundation of Marble and Slate, (a) 



This is, Madam, the Topography of ^ebec ; which, as you 

 fee, has a pretty large Extent. Moil: of the Houfes are built of 

 Stone ; and yet it is reckoned to contain but about feven thou- 

 fand Souls. r~~But to give you a juH Idea of this City, I fliall de- 

 fcribe its principal Buildings more particularly, and then I lhall 

 give an Account of its Fortifications.— -The Church of the lower 

 City was built in Confequence of a Vow made during the Siege 



(a) This City is confîderabîy increafed within the lafl twenty Years, 



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