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the consumption of it is considerable in families 

 of respectability for ordinary occasions; the 

 price of it varies from three pence halfpenny 

 to six-pence per pound. It is constantly to 

 be had in the market of Quebec. The roads 

 communicating with the adjacent grants are 

 enlivened by houses and gardens at short inter- 

 vals from each other, throughout nearly their 

 whole distance. On the road leading to the 

 capital, the populous village of Beauport is 

 situated on a gently rising ground ; it contains 

 from sixty to seventy houses, many of them 

 built of stone, and distinguished by great neat- 

 ness in their exterior appearance : the church 

 and parsonage-house are situated on the south 

 side of the road ; the former is much more ob- 

 servable for its solidity than for beauty or em- 

 bellishment: regularity and neatness are pre- 

 valent through the whole village. On each 

 side of the road also, the farm and other houses 

 are so thickly placed, that they seem to be a 

 prolongation of the place itself ; the farm-lands 

 and garden-grounds, all in a most flourishing 

 state; the orchards and occasional clumps of 

 trees, all combine to render it one of the most 

 pleasant roads in the environs of Quebec. This 

 village is the residence of many families of 

 the first respectabiUty, besides tradesmen, arti- 

 sans, and farmers. Westward of the church, on 



