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it is impoflible to afcend it except on foot. But 

 in going from the fquare towards the right a way 

 has been made, the declivity of which is much 

 more gentle, which is lined with houfes. At the 

 place where thefe two ways meet begins that part of 

 the upper town which faces the river, there being 

 another lower town on the fide towards the little ri- 

 ver St. Charles. The firft building worthy of no- 

 tice you meet with on your right hand in the for- 

 mer of thofe fides, is the bifhop's palace ; the left 

 being entirely occupied with private houfes. When 

 you are got about twenty paces farther, you find 

 yourfelf between two tolerably large fquares ; that 

 towards the left is the place of arms, fronting which, 

 is the fort or citadel, where the governor- general 

 refides ; on the oppofite fide Hands the convent of 

 the Recollects, the other fides of the fquare being 

 lined with handfome houfes. 



In the fquare towards your right you come firft: 

 of all to the cathedral, which ferves alfo for a parifh 

 church to the whole city. Near this, and on the 

 angle formed by the river St. Lawrence, and that 

 of St. Charles (lands the feminary. Oppofite to the 

 cathedral is the college of the jefuits, and on the 

 fides between them are fome very handfome houfes. 

 From the place of arms run two ftreets which are 

 croffed by a third, and which form a large ifle en- 

 tirely occupied by the church and convent of the 

 Recollects. From the fecond fquare to the river 

 St. Charles, are two defcents, one on the fouth to- 

 wards the feminary, which is very deep and with 

 very few houfes on it ; the other near the enclofure 

 of the jefuits, which is very winding, has the Hotel 

 Dieu^ or Hofpital, and half-way down is lined with 

 fmall houfes, and terminates at the palace where the 

 intendant refides. On the other fide of the Jefuit's 



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