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cated to Notre Dame de Victoire, and is suffi- 

 ciently spacious to contain a congregation of 

 about 4000 persons. A few years ago it was 

 not equal to the accommodation of the increas- 

 ed population; but the erection of galleries 

 has, for the present, remedied that inconve- 

 nience. The organ is an excellent one. The 

 presbytery is the residence of the curate and 

 four vicars of the cathedral, and has a covered 

 avenue leading from it to the church ; there is 

 also a similar one between the church and the 

 seminary. 



The extensive building called the Seminary 

 of Quebec stands near the cathedral, and is 

 within the precinct of the seminary's domain, 

 occupying with its attached buildings, court- 

 yard, gardens, &c. a large space of ground. It 

 is a substantial stone edifice, principally two 

 stories high, though some portions of it hai^e 

 been raised to three : it forms three sides of a 

 square, each about seventy-three yards in length, 

 with a breadth of forty feet ; the open side is to 

 the north-west. This establishment, originally 

 intended for ecclesiastical instruction exclu- 

 sively, was founded in the year 1663, by M. 

 de Petre, under the authority of letters patent 

 granted by the King of France ; the early re^ 

 gulations have long been departed from, and 

 at present students of the Catholic persuasiouj. 



