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the general found it expedient to dislodge 

 them from their house, which they had so 

 strongly barricaded as to require the aid of a 

 few pieces of artillery in bringing them to sub- 

 jection ; in consequence, the monastery was 

 destroyed, and there now remain only some of 

 the exterior walls, and part of an adjoining 

 tower. On a rising ground, in the rear of these 

 ruins, stands the parish church, rather a hand- 

 some structure with two spires : from this spot 

 a wide-spreading and beautiful prospect un- 

 folds itself, comprehending a large portion of 

 the river. Cape Tourmente, the Island of Or- 

 leans and Cape Diamond, with all the inter- 

 mediate scenery of the well-cultivated tracts of 

 the surrounding country, the whole bounded 

 by distant mountains both to the northward 

 and the southward. The parish of St. Joachim 

 is thickly inhabited ; the lands in it are of good 

 quality, and in high cultivation, producing 

 wheat and other grain very plentifully ; it con- 

 tains also some very luxuriant pasturage. Within 

 this parish, delightfully situated on a rising 

 ground, a short distance from Cape Tourmente, 

 is a country residence, with a chapel and va- 

 rious outbuildings, belonging to the Seminary of 

 Quebec, and whither many of the superiors 

 retire every year during the fine season. The 

 settlements of St. Fer^ole range along the 



