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habited chiefly by merchants, retail traders, 

 artizans, and abundance of tavern-keepers, and 

 are certainly the greatest thoroughfare of any. 

 St. Louis Street, running nearly parallel to St. 

 John Street, is much more elevated, airy, and 

 agreeable, and by far the pleasantest part of the 

 town ; as such, most of the superior officers of 

 the provincial government, and people of the 

 first rank, reside there : many of the houses are 

 modern and very handsome ; that belonging to 

 the late T. A. Coffin, Esq., is now inhabited by 

 the Protestant Bishop of Quebec, who, by his 

 situation of Metropolitan, is member of the 

 Legislative and Executive Councils of the 

 Upper, as well as the Lower Province. The 

 present Chief Justice, the Honourable Jonathan 

 Sewell, occupies a very spacious and handsome 

 house ; that of the late Chief Justice Elmsly, 

 though not modern, is large and elegant. It is at 

 present converted into a barrack for officers, 

 who have the greatest reason to be satisfied 

 with their quarters. On Mount Carmel there 

 is the remnant of an old military work, near to 

 which is agreeably situated a wooden building, 

 usually occupied by the governor's military se- 

 cretary. The market-place is one hundred and 

 sixty-five feet long ; in front of the Jesuits 

 barracks it is two hundred and fifty feet 

 broad, but near the cathedral it is reduced to 



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