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through which the St. Charles flows, and that 

 under Cape Rouge, an height of land about 

 eight miles long, rising above the general level, 

 hke an island above the surface of the ocean. 

 The citj, beside the distinction of Upper and 

 Lower Towns, is divided into domains and 

 fiefs, as the King's and Seminary's domains; 

 Fief St. Joseph ; ground belonging to the Hotel 

 Dieu ; the Fabrique, or church lands ; and the 

 lands that formerly belonged to the Order of 

 Jesuits : these, with the mihtary reserves, con- 

 stitute the principal divisions, in which the sub- 

 urbs are not included. In the year 1759 the 

 population of Quebec was estimated between 

 eight and nine thousand ; at present, including 

 the suburbs, it is about 18,000. The public 

 edifices are the Castle of St. Louis, the Hotel 

 Dieu, the convent of the Ursulines, the monas- 

 tery of the Jesuits, now turned into barracks, 

 the Protestant and Catholic cathedrals, the 

 Scotch church, the Lower Town church, the 

 court-house, the seminary, the new gaol, and 

 the artillery barracks ; there are two market- 

 places, a place d'armes, a parade, and an 

 esplanade. Of these buildings the Castle of St. 

 Louis, being the most prominent object on the 

 summit of the rock, will obtain the first notice : 

 it is a handsome stone building, seated near the 

 edge of a precipice, something more than two 



