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bottom, at fome fmall diftanee from the fide of a 

 little River, which by joyning the River of St. 

 Laurence, coops up the City in a right Angle. His 

 Houfe is the Palace in which the Soveraign Coun- 

 cil affembles four times a Week; and on one fide 

 of which, we fee great Magazines of Ammuniti- 

 on and Provisions. There are fix Churches in the 

 the High City : The Cathedral copfifts of a Bilhop, 

 and twelve Prebendaries, who live in common in 

 the Chapter-Houfe, the Magnificence and Archi- 

 tecture of which is truly wonderful. Thefe poor 

 Priefts are a very good fort of People ; they con- 

 tent themfelves with bare Neceffaries, and meddle 

 with nothing but the Affairs of the Church, where 

 the Service is performed after the Roman way. The 

 fecond Church is that of the Jefuits, which ftands 

 in the Center of the City ; and is a fair, ftately,and 

 well lighted Edifice. The great Altar of the Je- 

 fuits Church, is adorn'd with four great Cylindrical 

 Columns of one Stone ; The Stone being a fort of 

 Canada Porphyry, and black as Jet, without either 

 Spots or Veins. Thefe Fathers have very conveni- 

 ent and large Apartments, beautify 'd with plea- 

 fant Gardens, and feveral rows of Trees, which are 

 fo thick and bufhy, that in Summer one might 

 take their Walks for an Ice Houfe : And indeed 

 we may fay without ftretching, that there is Ice 

 not far from ? em, for the good Fathers are never 

 without a referve in two or three places, for the 

 cooling of their Drink. Their College is fo fmal!, 

 that at the beft they have fcarce fifty Scholars at. a- 

 time. The third Church is that of the Recoiled,-, 

 who, through the intercefiion of Count Frmtenac, 

 obtained leaveof the King to build a little Chap- 

 pel ( which I call a Church;) notwkhlianding the 

 Remonftrances of Mr. de Laval our Biihop, who, in 

 concert with the Jefuits, us'd his utmoft Efforts for 

 ten years together to hinder it. Before the build. 



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