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which communicates with a very elevated cavalier, 

 on which ftands a windmill fortified. As you de- 

 fcend from this cavalier, and at the diftance of a 

 mulket fhot from it, you meet firft a tower fortified 

 with a baftion, and at the fame diftance from this 

 a fecond. The defign was to line all this with 

 ftone, which was to have had the fame angles with 

 the baftions, and to have terminated at the extre- 

 mity of the rock, oppofite to the palace, where 

 there is already a fmall redoubt, as well as on Cape 

 Diamond. Why this has not been put in execution 

 I have not learned. Such, Madam, was the condi- 

 tion of the place nearly in 1711, when the Eng- 

 liftv fitted out a great armament for the conqueft of 

 Canada, which was caft away through the temerity 

 of the admiral, who, contrary to the advice of his 

 pilot, went too near to the Seven Iflands, where he 

 loft all his largeft fhips, and three thoufand of his 

 beft troops. 



Quebec is ftill at this day in the fame fituation, 

 which you may affure yourfelf of by the plan in re- 

 lievo, which M. de Chauffegros de Leri, chief engi- 

 neer, fends into France this year, to be placed with 

 the other plans of fortified places in the Louvre. 

 After having* informed you of what relates to the 

 exterior of our capital, I muft now fay a word or 

 two with refpect to its principal inhabitants ; this is 

 its beft fide, and if by confidering only its houfes, 

 fquares, ftreeta, churches, and publick buildings, 

 we might reduce it to the rank of our fmalleft cir- 

 ties in France, yet the quality of thofe who inhabit 

 it, will fufHciently vindicate us in bellowing upon 

 it the title of a capital. 



I have already faid, that they reckon no more 

 than feven thoufand fouls at Quebec ^ yet you find 



