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he fills with a zeal and application which would be 

 admired in a fimple prieft who got his bread by it. 

 The artizans, or others, who on account of their 

 great age, are without the means of getting their 

 fubfiftence, are received into this hofpital till all the 

 beds in it are full, and thirty nuns are employed in 

 ferving them. Thefe are a Scion or Colony from 

 the hofpital of Quebec ; but in order to diftinguifh 

 them, the bifhop has given them certain peculiar 

 regulations, and obliges them to wear a filver crofs 

 on their breaft. Moft part of them are young wo- 

 men of condition, and as they are not thofe of the 

 eafieft circumftances in the country the bifhop has 

 portioned feveral of them. 



Quebec is not regularly fortified, but they have 

 been long employed in rendering it a place of 

 ftrength. This city would not be eafily taken even 

 in the condition in which it now is. The harbour 

 is flanked by two baftions, which in high tides are 

 almoft level with the furface of the water, that is to 

 fay, they are elevated five and twenty feet from the 

 ground, for fo high do the tides flow in the time of 

 the equinox. A little above the baftion on the 

 right, has been built a half baftion, which is cut 

 out of the rock, and a little higher, on the fide to- 

 wards the gallery of the fort is a battery of twenty- 

 five pieces of cannon. Higher ftill is a fmall fquare 

 fort, called the citadel, and the ways which com- 

 municate from one fortification to another are ex- 

 tremely fteep. To the left of the harbour quite 

 ^long the road, as far as the river St. Charles, are 

 good batteries of cannon with feveral mortars. 



From the angle of the citadel, which fronts the 

 city has been built an oreillon of a baftion, from 

 whence has been drawn a curtain at right angles, 



which 



