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ing small streets that cross the main road at 

 right angles. There is a neat parish church, a 

 parsonage-house, and one or two tglerable good 

 houses for the accommodation of travellers. 

 The local beauties of this place can boast of 

 many attractions, being surrounded by exten- 

 sive orchards and excellent gardens. About 

 three leagues eastward of Montreal is Pointe- 

 au -Tremble, a neat village of fifty houses, a 

 church, chapel, and a parsonage-house. The 

 main road to Quebec passes through this place, 

 which always brings to it a constant succession 

 of travellers, for whose reception there are some 

 inns, where accommodation in all the principal 

 requisites is to be obtained. These are the 

 only villages on the island ; but in every parish 

 there is a great number of good houses scattered 

 about, though but few are placed close toge- 

 ther; they are mostly built of stone, as that 

 material is to be had every where in great 

 abundance. The city of Montreal is within 

 this seigniory ; it stands on the south side of the 

 island, in lat. 45^ 31' N. and 73\ 35' W. ; the 

 second of the province in point of size, but with 

 respect to situation, local advantages, and su- 

 periority of climate, it is undoubtedly unrivalled 

 by Quebec itself : its form is a prolonged square, 

 that, with the suburbs, covers about 1020 acres 

 of ground, although within the walls of the old 



