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greyish stone, many of them large, handsome, 

 and in a modern style : sheet-iron or tin is the 

 universal covering of the roofs. The Rue Notre 

 Dame, extending from the citadel to the Re- 

 collet suburbs, is 1344 yards in length, and 30 

 feet broad ; it is by much the handsomest street 

 in the place, and contains a great many of the 

 public buildings ; but the cathedral is so in- 

 judiciously situated, that it occupies the whole 

 breadth of it at the Place d'Armes, which, 

 though not an impediment to the passage, 

 destroys the perspective that otherwise would 

 be unobstructed from the citadel to the Re- 

 collet gate. St. Paul-street is another fine street, 

 running the whole length of the town, but more 

 irregular in its course and breadth than the 

 former : from its contiguity to the river, the 

 situation is very convenient for business. Among 

 the edifices that attract notice, perhaps more 

 from the value of the establishments than their 

 beauty, are the Hotel Dieu, the convent of 

 Notre Dame, the General Hospital, the French 

 Cathedral, the Recollet Convent, the convent 

 of the Grey Sisters, the seminary of St. Sulpice, 

 the New College or Petit Seminaire, the En- 

 glish and Scotch churches, the Court-house, the 

 new gaol, the Government-house, Nelson's mo- 

 nument, and the Quebec barracks. The Hotel 

 Dieu, in St. Paul-street, extending 324 English 



