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and consists of about forty well-built houses, 

 mostly of a respectable appearance, with a 

 handsome church and parsonage-house. A 

 good garden and small orchard are the appen- 

 dages of every dwelhng. The elections of mem- 

 bers of parliament for the county are always 

 held here. A little below the village, on the 

 skirts of a small rising ground on the north 

 side of a concession or cross road, stands 

 a small group of handsome houses, usually 

 called the Little Village, which does not yield 

 in beauty of situation to the other. Of two 

 roads leading from Dorchester bridge, the one 

 on the left hand is called Le Chemin de 

 Charlebourg, and the other La Canardiere, or 

 Le Chemin de Beauport ; on the latter there 

 is a succession of good houses, excellent gar- 

 dens, and farms in a high state of cultivation. 

 Two houses of superior elegance, belonging to 

 the Honourable P. Debonne, usually attract 

 notice, by the advantages of a good style of 

 architecture and excellence of situation, their 

 beautiful gardens, and surrounding shrubberies 

 and plantations. There is also a very spacious 

 house belonging to the Ecclesiastics of the 

 Seminary of Quebec, generallj'^ distinguished 

 t3y the appellation of La Maison des Pr6tres ; 

 it is retained in their own hands as a farm, and 



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