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The jefuits have only a fmall houfe here, but 

 their church, the roof of which is juft upon the 

 point of being finifhed is large and well built. The 

 convent of the Recollets is more fpacious, and 

 their community more numerous, The feminary 

 is in the centre of the town ; they feem to have 

 thought more of rendering it folid and commodi- 

 ous than magnificent you may, however, ftill dif- 

 cover it to be the manor- houfe ; it communicates 

 with the parifh- church, which has much more the 

 air of a cathedral than that of Quebec. Divine 

 worfhip is celebrated here with a modefty and dig- 

 nity which infpire the fpectators with an awful notion 

 of that God who is worshipped in it. 



The houfe of the daughters of the Congregation, 

 though one of the largeft in the city, is ftill too 

 fmall to lodge fo numerous a community. This is 

 the head of an order and the noviciate of an infti- 

 tute, which ought to be fo much the dearer to 

 New France, and to this city in particular, on ac- 

 count of its taking its rife in it ; and as the whok co- 

 lony has felt the advantage of fo noble an endow- 

 ment. The Hotel- Dieu, or Hofpital is ferved by 

 thefe nuns, the firft of whom came from la Fleche 

 in Anjou. They are poor, which, however, nei- 

 ther appears in their hall, or yards, which are fpaci- 

 ous, well-furnifhed, and extremely well provided 

 with beds nor in their church, which is handfome, 

 and exceeding richly ornamented nor in their houfe, 

 which is w T dl built, neat and commodious ; but 

 they are at the fame time ill fed, though all of them 

 are indefatigable either in the inftruction of the 

 youth or in taking care of the fick. 



The hofpital -general owes its foundation to a pri- 

 vate perfon called I harron, who alfociated with fe- 



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