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Quebeio or Quebec, which in the Algonquin lan- 

 guage fignifies a ft rait or narrowing. The Abena- 

 quis, whofe language is a dialect of the Algonquin, 

 call it Quelibec, that is to fay, fhut up, becaufe 

 from the entry of the little river de la Cbaudiere, by 

 which thefe Indians ufually came to Quebec, from 

 the neighbourhood of Acadia the point of Levi, 

 which projects towards the lfle of Orleans, entirely 

 hides the fouth channel, as the lfle of Orleans does 

 that of the north, fo that the port of Quebec ap- 

 pears from thence like a great bay. 



The flrft object you perceive on your arrival in 

 the road is a fine fheet of water, about thirty feet 

 in breadth, and forty high. This is fituated clofe 

 by the entry of the lefTer channel of the lfle of Or- 

 leans, and is feen from a long point on the fouth- 

 fide of the river, which as I have already obferved 

 feems to join to the lfle of Orleans. This cafcade 

 is called the Falls of Montmorency, and the other 

 Point Levi. The reafon of which is, that the ad- 

 miral de Montmorency, and the Due de Ventadour 

 his nephew, were fucceflively viceroys of New 

 France. There is no perfon, who would not ima- 

 gine, that fo plentiful a fall of water, and which, 

 never dries up mud proceed from fome fine river ; 

 it is, however, no more than a puny ftream, in 

 which in fome places there is hardly water up to the 

 ankle-, it flows, however conftantly, and derives 

 its fource from a pleafant lake twelve leagues diftant 

 from the falls. 



The city (lands a league higher, on the fame fide 

 and at the place where the river is narrower!:. But 

 between it and the lfle of Orleans, is a bafon a large 

 league, over every way into which difcharges it- 

 felf the little river Si Charles, flowing from the 



north- 



