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veral pious perfbns, not only for this good work, 

 but alio to provide fchool- mailers for the country- 

 parifhes, who mould perform the fame functions 

 with refpect to the boys, which the fillers of the 

 congregation did with regard to the fair fex ; but 

 this fociety foon diffolved fome being called off by 

 their private concerns, and others by their natural 

 incon'iancy, fo that the SieurCharron was foon left 

 alone. He was not however difcouraged, he open- 

 ed his purfe, and found the fecret to caufe feveral 

 perfons in power open theirs ; he built a houfe, af- 

 fembled mafters and hofpitallers, and men took a 

 pJeafure in aiding and impowering one who fpared 

 neither his money nor his labour, and whom no 

 difficulties were capable of deterring. Laftly, be- 

 fore his death, which happened in the year 1719* 

 he had the confolation to fee his project beyond all 

 fear of mifcarrying, at leaft with refpect to the 

 hofpital-general. The houfe is a fine edifice and 

 the church a very hand fome one. The fchool- 

 m afters are ASM! on no folid foundations in the pa- 

 l-lilies, and the prohibition made them by the court 

 of wearing an uniform drefs, and of taking fimple 

 vows, may poffibly occafion this project to be dis- 

 continued, 



Between the ifland of Montreal and the Conti- 

 nent on the north fide, is another ifland of about 

 eight leagues in length, and full two in breadth 

 where broadeft. This was at firfl called rifle de 

 Mcntmafny, after a governor- general of Canada of 

 this name-, it was afterwards granted to thejefuits, 

 who gave it the name of rifle Jefus^ which it ftill 

 retains, though it has paued from them to the fu- 

 periors of the feminary of Quebec, who have be- 

 gun to plant it with inhabitants, and as the foil is 

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