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The Protestant Cathedral is situated near 

 the court-house, and parallel with Ste. Anne 

 Street: it is one hundred and thirt3^-six feet 

 long, by seventy-five broad, built of a fine grey 

 stone, the roof covered with tin, which, being 

 continually bright, gives a remarkable appear- 

 ance of lightness and elegance to the whole 

 structure; it occupies part of the ground of 

 the Recollets, or Franciscans. This is, per- 

 haps, the handsomest modern edifice of the 

 city, and though not highly decorated, the 

 style of architecture is chaste and correct ; in 

 the interior, a neat and unostentatious elegance 

 prevails, wherein ornament is judiciously but 

 sparingly introduced. There is a principal 

 entrance at each end of the church, approached 

 by a flight of steps : the fitting up of the inside 

 is commodious and handsome, corresponding 

 with the unassuming beauty of the whole. The 

 organ is of a very superior power. The spire 

 is lofty, light, and elegant, being covered with 

 tin, and the church standing upon nearly the 

 highest ground within the city, is a very con- 

 spicuous object at an immense distance ; taken 

 altogether, this is the most faultless structure 

 in the place, or indeed within the whole pro* 

 vince. 



The Catholic Cathedral stands on the north 

 side of Buade Street, fronting the market- 



