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ous, wherein may be had British goods of all 

 denominations; several inns afford to travel- 

 lers very respectable accommodations. On the 

 south-west side of the town are the remains of 

 some mihtary works thrown up for its defence 

 by the English army, during the war of the re- 

 bellion, which are now honoured by the inhabit- 

 ants with the high-sounding title of" Anciennes 

 Fortifications'' On the outside of these works 

 is an extensive tract of common land. The 

 principal public buildings in the town are the 

 Ursuline convent, the protestant and catholic 

 churches, the court-house, gaol, and barracks. 

 The major part of the private dwelling-houses, 

 &c. are built of wood, the oldest of them only 

 one story high, having small gardens about 

 them ; but those of more recent date are in a 

 much better style, many of them higher than 

 the old ones, and rather of handsome appear- 

 ance. The Ursuline convent was founded in 

 1677, by Mons. de St. Vallier, Bishop of Que- 

 bec, for the education of youth, chiefly females, 

 and as an asylum for the sick and infirm poor. 

 The establishment is for a superior and twenty- 

 four nuns. In I8O6, the old building was de- 

 stroyed by fire, when its inhabitants, dispersed 

 by that calamity, were received into the differ- 

 ent religious houses of Quebec and Montreal, 

 until the present edifice was erected. It is a 



