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of Quebec, on the 29th October, 1686, by 

 which concession the whole extent of beach in 

 front, and reaching to the low-water mark in 

 the River St. Charles, was confirmed to it. 

 This grant is quoted by Le Maitre La Morille, 

 Arpenteur Royal et Jure a Quebec, in his pro.- 



ces verbal, dated , 1758, wherein 



he minutely describes the boundaries of both 

 domains, and also of the ground granted to the 

 Hotel Dieu. As the limits of these grants are 

 correctly delineated upon the plan of the city 

 of Quebec on the Topographical Map, it may 

 suffice here to give a sort of average or general 

 outline of them, as they are met with in the 

 course of the description of the city. The Se- 

 minary's domain is nearly as follows ; beginning 

 at the separation from the King's domain in 

 the Lower Town, it passes between the houses 

 of the Honourable Mr. Caldwell and Mr. 

 Tod ; from whence it extends in an easterly 

 direction as far as the low-water mark. Re- 

 turning to the first mentioned separation from 

 the King's domain, it shapes nearly a west- 

 south-west course as far as the presbytery, near 

 the Catholic cathedral, where it takes a direc- 

 tion nearly north-westerly to the French bury- 

 ing-ground, or Cimetiere des Picotes, and from 

 thence it ends by a line running north eleven 

 degrees west by compass, to the low-water mark ; 

 dividing on this side the domain from the 



