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handfomely defigned, fome good pi&ures, and ?s 

 without any dome or cupola, but a flat deling hand- 

 fomely ornamented *, it has no (tone pavement, in 

 place of which it is floored with ftrong planks, which 

 makes this church fupportable in winter, whilft you 

 are pierced with cold in the others, I make no 

 mention of four large maffy cylindrical columns, each 

 of a fingle block of a certain fort of porphyry, black 

 as jet, and without either fpots or veins, with which 

 the baron de la Hontan has thought fit to enrich the 

 great altar; they would certainly do better than 

 thofe actually there, which are hollow and coarfely 

 daubed in imitation of marble. One might, how- 

 ever, have forgiven this author, if he had never dif- 

 figured the truth, except to add luftre to churches. 



The Hotel Dieu, or hofpital has two large wards, 

 one for men and the other for women. The beds 

 here are kept exceeding clean, the fick are well at- 

 tended, and every thing is commodious and extreme- 

 ly neat. The church ftands behind the women's 

 ward, and has nothing worth notice except the great 

 altar. The houfe is ferved by the nuns Hofpitallers of 

 St. Auguftine, of the congregation of the Mercy of 

 Jefus ; the firft of whom come originally from 

 Dieppe. They have begun to build themlelves a 

 commodious apartment, but will not, in all likeli- 

 hood, foon finifti it for want of funds. As their 

 houfe is fituated on the defcent, half-way down the 

 hill, on a flat place, which extends a little towards 

 the river St. Charles, they enjoy a very pleafant 

 profpedt. 



The intendant's houfe is called the palace, becaufe 

 the fuperior council afTembles in it. This is a large 

 pavilion the two extremities of which project fome 



feet, 



