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lied on for some years with great success ; the 

 produce is not inferior to what is imported 

 from England. Close by the plantation stand 

 a malt-house, a brewery, and a dwelling-house, 

 besides many other appendages, the property 

 of Mr. HuUett, to whom the hop-grounds be- 

 long ; the two former are entitled to some re- 

 spect as being the venerable remains of an an- 

 cient chapel and some other buildings, erected 

 in 1637 by the Jesuits, for the residence of a 

 mission employed in their favourite undertak- 

 ing of converting the natives to Christianity ; 

 the utter decay of these vestiges of zealous piety 

 has been for a while suspended, as a few years 

 since they were repaired and made applicable 

 to their present uses. Not far from this spot 

 the nation of the Algonquins had a village, and 

 it is somewhat remarkable that in Sillery Wood 

 there yet remains some of the tumuli belonging 

 to their burying-place, and what is still more 

 worthy of observation, some of their rude 

 mementos carved on the trees are at this day 

 sufficiently visible to be traced. In a hollow 

 a little to the westward of Sillery Cove, on a 

 gentle eminence now nearly overgrown with 

 brushwood and creeping shrubbery, are the 

 remains of a stone building, once the dwelling 

 of a few female devotees, who, in imitation of 

 the Jesuits, applied their religious enthusiasm 



