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Paris having been for a long time much inferior to 

 what Quebec is at this day) as far as the fight can 

 reach, nothing will be feen but towns, villas, plea- 

 fure houfes, and all this is already chalked out ; 

 when the great river St. Lawrence, who rowls ma- 

 jeftically his waters which he brings from the ex- 

 tremities of the north or weft mail be covered with 

 lhips ; when the ifle of Orleans and both mores of 

 each of the rivers which form this port, mall dif- 

 cover fine meadows, fruitful hills, and fertile fields, 

 and in order to accomplifh this, there wants only 

 more inhabitants ; when part of the river St. Charles, 

 which agreeably meanders through a charming val- 

 ley, mail be joined to the city, the mod beautiful 

 quarter of which it will undoubtedly form ; when 

 the whole road mall have been faced with magnifi- 

 cent quays, and the port furrounded with fuperb 

 edifices ; and when we mall fee three or four hun- 

 dred lhips lying in it loaden with riches, of which 

 we have hitherto been unable to avail ourfelves, 

 and bringing in exchange thofe of both worlds, you 

 will then acknowledge, Madam, that this terras 

 xnuft afford a profpect which nothing can equal, and 

 that even now it ought to be fomething fingularly 

 linking. 



The cathedral would make but an indifferent pa- 

 rim church in one of the fmalleft towns in France ; 

 judge then whether it deferves to be the feat of the 

 jble bifhoprick in all the French empire in Ame- 

 rica, which is much more extenfive than that of 

 the Romans ever was. No architecture, the choir, 

 the great altar, and chapels, have all the air of a 

 country church. What is moft paffable in it, is a 

 very high tower, folidly built, and which, at a dis- 

 tance, has no bad effect. The feminary which ad- 

 joins to this church is a large fquare, the buildings 



