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grounds of the Hotel Dieu. From M'Cal- 

 lum's to Messrs. Munro and Bell's wharf the 

 line is occupied by a continuation of water- 

 side premises and wharfs, conveniently situated 

 towards the St. Lawrence, and well calculated 

 for the extensive shipping concerns of their 

 respective owners. From the avenue leading 

 down to Munro and BelFs, the Rue Sault au 

 Matelot is prolonged in a westerly direction 

 as far as La Canoterie, so close under the cliff 

 as to admit of only one row of houses ; and 

 although by undermining and cutting away 

 the rock so as to make it quite perpendicular, 

 in order to render the street as convenient as 

 the nature of circumstances will admit; yet in 

 one place, with all these contrivances, it is no 

 more than twelve feet wide. In the rear of 

 these houses there is another line of wharfs, 

 that can be reached by river craft at high- 

 water only, or a little before. From the end of 

 Rue Sault au Matelot there is a way commu- 

 nicating with the Upper Town, by Hope Gate. 

 Proceeding westward through St. Charles and 

 St. Nicholas Street, there is a range of spacious 

 wharfs, the King's store-houses and wharfs, the 

 batteaux-yard, and the jetty ; the latter is no 

 more than a rude pile of loose stones, that have 

 been heaped together year after year since 

 1751, at which time it was in a better state 

 than at present; it had then a level surface 



