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Labrador, when an election takes place for its 

 members of parliament, it is held at Ange 

 Gardien for the western part of it, and when 

 finished there the candidates repair to St. 

 Paul's Bay, where the votes for the eastern dis- 

 trict are collected, and from whence the mem- 

 bers are declared duly elected. The Riviere 

 Sault a la Puce is a small stream, descending 

 from the high lands in the rear of Chateau 

 Richer : it winds through a mountainous and 

 woody country, and is entitled to notice for two 

 or three very romantic falls, where its stream is 

 precipitated from the declivity of one ridge to 

 the level of another ; and for the beautiful and 

 truly sylvan scenery that decorates its banks, 

 and, in the fall of the year particularly, presents 

 a most extraordinary combination of various 

 foliage. In Chateau Richer are the ruins of a 

 Franciscan Monastery, that was built at the 

 beginning of the last century, upon a little 

 rocky promontory on the bank of the St. Law- 

 rence. Its destruction took place at the time 

 the British army, under General Wolfe, was 

 encamped on the eastern side of the River 

 Montmorenci: the priests of the order at that 

 period, paying more attention to temporal than 

 to spiritual concerns, exerted themselves so 

 much in preventing the country people from 

 supplying any provisions to the troops, that 



