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the road, are two houses belonging to it; one ap- 

 propriated for the reception and treatment of 

 persons labouring under insanity, and tlie other 

 as a dwelHng-house for servants, employed in a 

 farm attached to the estabUshment. The inte- 

 rior arrangement and management of this ex- 

 cellent charity, with respect to accommoda- 

 tion, are very judicious ; the patients are lodged 

 in comfortable and spacious wards, men on 

 the ground floor, and women on the floor 

 above ; for the superieure and the nuns there 

 is ample room for residence, refectories, and 

 apartments for carrying on different works in 

 which they employ themselves, exclusive of 

 their attendance on the sick: a spacious and 

 neat church is attached to the convent. As 

 this hospital administers succour to the afflicted 

 under any of the diseases within the wide range 

 of human calamity, it is most commonly nearly 

 filled. Its support is drawn from the revenues 

 of the landed property that has been granted 

 to it, the sale of the works performed by the 

 nuns, particularly of church ornaments, which 

 they make and gild in great perfection, and 

 by occasional grants of money from the pro- 

 vincial parliament. 



To tacilitate travelling in the lower province, 

 and render it as expeditious as possible, there 

 is a line of post-houses from Quebec to Mont- 



