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quantities from the different fertile seigniories 

 round the capital. In fact, nothing is want- 

 ing to furnish the table, and that too at a 

 moderate price, for every rank of society, from 

 the humble labourer to the man of afHuence, 

 who can enjoy both the comforts and luxuries 

 of life. 



The Place d'Armes, or Grand Parade, in 

 front of the Chateau, though not extensive, is 

 handsome, and may be termed the court end 

 of the town. Being surrounded by the most dis- 

 tinguished edifices in the capital, it affords an 

 agreeable promenade. 



The Esplanade, between St. Louis and St. 

 John's Gate, has a length of two hundred and 

 seventy-three yards, by an average breadth of 

 eighty ; except at the St. Ursula bastion, where 

 it is one hundred and twenty yards ; it is tolera- 

 bly level, in some places presenting a surface 

 of the bare rock. This is the usual place of pa- 

 rade for the troops of the garrison, from whence 

 every morning the different guards of the town 

 are mounted. The musters, and annual reviews of 

 the militia belonging to the city, are held here. 



The Lower Town is situated immediately 

 under Cape Diamond, and by the continuation 

 of merchants' stores and warehouses, reaches 

 from L'Ance des Meres round the point of the 

 Cape, as far to the north-west as the suburbs of 

 St. Roch : it stands on what may be termed an 



