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to convert and instruct the female savages. 

 On the high bank to the vrestward bounding 

 this cove is an elegant, well-built, stone house, 

 the property of Mr. M'Nider of Quebec ; the 

 situation is commanding and agreeable : the 

 style both of the exterior and interior of the re- 

 sidence deserves notice. Many roads in almost 

 every direction form an easy communication 

 with Quebec and all the surrounding seigniories ; 

 of these, the one leading by the river side, one 

 by the church of Ste. Foi, and another by the 

 village of La Vielle Lorette, are the principal ; 

 on either side of each there are many well-built 

 houses, with various plantations, and farms in 

 a very advanced state of improvement, and 

 strongly indicating the good circumstances of 

 the proprietors. The front of the seigniory is 

 indented by several coves, wherein, between 

 the high bank of the river and the high water 

 mark, there are level flats that afford most con- 

 venient situations for depositing, squaring, and 

 sorting timber, and staves of all descriptions 

 when prepared for exportation ; and also 

 beaches for receiving the rafts as they are 

 brought down the river : these are called tim- 

 ber grounds. The principal of them is Sillery, 

 or as it is now called Hullett's Cove, that gen- 

 tleman having obtained from government a 

 lease of the beach from Pointe a Puisseaux, up 



