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plan is disposed with every attention to the 

 health, cleanhness, and comfort (as far as the 

 latter is compatible with the nature of such a 

 place) of its unfortunate inmates, both debtors 

 and criminals. The government house, usually 

 classed among the public buildings, is on the 

 south side of Notre Dame-street; being very 

 old, and an early specimen of the unpolished 

 architecture of the province, it is not much en- 

 titled to notice; it is however kept in good re- 

 pair, and furnished as an occasional residence 

 of the governor in chief, when he visits the 

 upper district: on the opposite side of the 

 street, bordering on the Champ de Mars, is an 

 excellent and extensive garden belonging to it. 

 The old monastery of the Recollets stands at the 

 western extremity of Notre Dame-street ; it is 

 a substantial stone building, forming a square 

 of about 140 feet each way, and more remark- 

 able as being convenient to the purposes for 

 which it was designed than for its beauty. The 

 church within it is still used for divine worship, 

 but the house itself is converted into barracks, 

 and the extensive ground belonging to it is re- 

 tained by government for military purposes. 

 At the upper part of the new market-place, 

 close to Notre Dame-street, is a handsome mo- 

 nument, erected to commemorate the Hero of 

 Trafalgar, immortal Nelson : it is composed of 



