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north- weft. Quebec (lands between the mouth of 

 this river and Cape Diamond, which projects a lit- 

 tle into the river. The anchoring place is oppofite 

 to it, in five and twenty fathoms water good ground. 

 Notwithstanding when it blows hard at north-eaft, 

 fhips drag their anchors fbmetimes but with fcarce 

 any danger. 



When Samuel Champlain founded this city in 

 1608, the tide ufually rofe to the foot of the rock. 

 Since that time the river has retired by little 

 and little, and has at laft left dry a large piece of 

 ground, on which the lower town has fince been 

 built, and which is now fufficiently elevated above 

 the water's edge, to fecure its inhabitants againft the 

 inundations of the river. The firft thing you meet 

 with on landing is a pretty large fquare, and of an 

 irregular form, having in front a row of well built 

 houfes, the back part of which leans againft the 

 rock, fo that they have no great depth. Thefe 

 form a ftreet of a confiderable length, occupying 

 the whole breadth of the fquare, and extending on 

 the right and left as far as the two ways which lead 

 to the upper town. The fquare is bounded towards 

 the left by a fmall church, and towards the, right 

 by two rows of houfes placed in a parallel direction* 

 There is alfo another ftreet on the other fide between 

 the church and the harbour, and at the turning of 

 the river under Cape Diamond, there is likewhe 

 another pretty long flight of houfes on the banks 

 of a creek called the Bay of Mothers, This quar- 

 ter may be reckoned properly enough a fort of fub- 

 urbs to the lower town. 



Between this fuburb and the great ftreet, you go 

 up to the higher town by fo fteep an afcent, that it 

 has been found necefiary to cut it into fteps. Thus 

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