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ter; but winters, during which eafterly winds from the 
mountains of Savoy and Piedmont prevail, muft be much 
colder. The foil on which Montpellier Hands, which is 
fandy and ftony, muft contribute much to its heat. Lat. 
43. 36. N. Ion. 3. 51. E. 
MONTPELLIE'-R, a town of the ftate of Vermont, on 
the Onion river. 
MONTPENSIE'R, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Puy de Dome: nine miles north-north-eaft 
of Riom. 
MONTPEYROU'X, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Herauit: three miles north-weft of Ginac, 
and fcven eaft-fouth-eaft of Lodeve. 
MONTPEZAN', a town of France, in the department 
of the Gers : twenty-two miles fouth-eaft of Auch, and 
thirteen fouth-vveft of rifle en Jourdain. 
MONTPEZA'T, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lot: twelve miles fouth ofGahors, and fourteen 
north-north-eaft of Montauban. Lat. 44.. 14. N. Ion. 1. 
34. E. 
MONTPEZA'T, a town of France, in the department 
of the Ardeche: iixteen miles weft of Privas, and fifteen 
north of Joyeufe. 
MONTPEZA'T, a town of France, in the department 
of the Lot and Garonne : eight miles fouth-weft of Ville- 
neuve d’Agen, and nine eaft-fouth-eaft of Tonneins. 
MONTPIMJON', a towm of France, in the department 
of the Channel: fix miles eaft of Coutances. 
MONTPON'T, a town of France, in the department 
of the Saone and Loire: feven miles fouth-fouth-weft of 
Louhans, and ten eaft of Tournus. 
MONTPON'T, a town of France, and feat of a tri¬ 
bunal, in the department of the Dordogne: ten miles 
weft-fouth-weft of Mucidan, and fixteen north-weft of 
Bergerac. Lat. 44. 59. N. Ion. o. 14. E. 
MQNTPREVEI'RE, a town of Swilferland, in the can¬ 
ton of Berne: five miles north-eaft of Laufanne. 
MONTQUELAI', a towm of Perfia, in the province of 
Farfiftan, on the north coaft of the Perfian Gulf: 120 
miles fouth-fouth-weft of Schiras. 
MONTRACHE'T, One of the choiceft forts of white 
Burgundy, the produce of Beaune, in Poligny. It is much 
efteemed both m France and abroad. 
MONTREAL', a town of France, in the department 
of the Yonne : fix miles north-eaft of Avallon, and twen¬ 
ty-four fouth-eaft of Auxerre. 
MONTREAL', a town of France, in the department 
of the Gers : feven miles weft of Condom, and twenty- 
four north-weft of Auch. Lat. 43. 58. N. Ion. o. 16. E. 
MONTREAL', a town of France, in the department 
of the Aude : nine miles weft of Carcalfonne, and ten 
fouth-weft of Caftelnaudary. 
MONTREAL', a towm of France, in the department 
■of the Ain : four miles north of Naritua. 
MONTREAL', a town of France, in the department 
of the Sarre, late in the deflorate of Treves. A fortrefs 
was built here by Louis XIV. on a (harp rock, in a penin- 
fula of theMolelle, oppofite Trarbach ; which was dento- 
iiftied in the year 1698, by the treaty of peace with Ger¬ 
many. It is feventeen miles weft of Coblentz, and four 
north-eaft of Treves. 
MONTREAL', a town of Spain, in the kingdom of 
Arragon, with a caltle, feated on the river Xiloca: twenty- 
five miles north-weft of Terville, and forty fouth-eaft of 
Caiatayud. Lat. 41.9. N. Ion. 1.2. W. 
MONTREAL', a town of Sicily, in the Valley of Ma- 
zafa,‘with an archbiftiop’s fee; feated on a rivulet: five 
miles weft of Palermo, and fifty north-eaft of Mazara. 
Lat. 38.14. N. Ion. 13. 31. E. 
MONTREAL', or Mount Royal, a fortrefs of Ger¬ 
many, in the circle of the Lower Rhine, feated on the 
river Mofelle: twenty-two miles north-eaft of Triers. 
Lat. 49. 59. N. Ion. 7. 6. E. 
MONTREAL', a town of United America, reckoned 
MON 
the fecond in rank in Lower Canada, fituated on an ifland 
in the river St. Lawrence; and deriving its name from a 
very high mountain, about the middle of it. It lies on 
the oppofite fide of the river to La Prarie ; the tw’o towns 
being nine miles apart, and the river about tw r o miles and 
a quarter wide. The current of the river is here very 
ftrong, fo that vellels encounter immenfe difficulties in 
arriving at Montreal; hence it is that the paflage from 
Quebec to Montreal is generally more tedious than that 
acrofs the Atlantic, and therefore thofe fhips which trade 
between Europe and Montreal never attempt to make 
more than one voyage in the year. Notwithftanding the 
rapidity of the dream, the channel of the river is very 
deep, and particularly oppofite to the town; fo that the 
largeft merchant-vellels can there lie fo dole to the banks, 
which are in their natural ftate, that they may be nearly 
touched with the hand from the fhore. This town was 
laid out in purfuance of the orders of one of the kings of 
France, which were, that a town Ihould be built as high 
up on the St. Lawrence as it v/ere poftible for veffels to 
go by fea; and his commands were ftriftly obferved. The 
town at prefent contains about twelve hundred houfes, of 
which five hundred only are within the walls, the reft being 
in the fuburbs ; thole in the fuburbs are moftly built of 
wood, the others of ftone ; none of them are elegant, but 
many of them are comfortable habitations. In the lower 
part of the town, towards the river, where mod of the 
(hops Hand, they have a very gloomy appearance, and 
look like fo many prifons, as they are all furnilhed, at 
the outlide, with iron (butters to the doors and windows, 
which are regularly clofed towards the evening, in order 
to guard againft fire, from which the inhabitants have 
often luftered; and, therefore, as an additional fecurity, 
they cover their houfes with tin-plates inftead of fhingles. 
By law they are obliged to have one or more ladders, in 
proportion to the fize of the lioufe, always ready on the 
roofs. The ftreets are narrow ; three of them run parallel 
to the river, and thefe are interfered by others at right 
angles, but not at regular diftances. On the fide of the 
town fartheft from the river is a fmall fquare, called La 
Place d’Armes, defigned originally for the military to 
exercife in. On the oppofite fide of the town, towards 
the water, is another fmall fquare, in which the market 
is held. There are fix churches; one for Englifh epifeo- 
palians, one for prefbyterians, and four for Roman catho¬ 
lics. The cathedral church, belonging to the latter, is a 
very fpacious building, containing five altars, all richly 
decorated, and moll of the chriftenings, marriages, and 
burials, of the Roman-catholic inhabitants, are performed 
in this church. The funerals are conduced with great 
ceremony ; the corple being always attended to the church 
by a number of priefts chanting prayers, and by little boys 
in white robes and black caps, carrying wax-lights. There 
are alio four convents. The barracks are agreeably fitu¬ 
ated near the river, at the lower end of the town ; they 
are furrounded by a lofty wall, and calculated to contain 
about three hundred men. The walls round the town 
are generally mouldering, and fome of them are in ruins; 
although the gates are quite perfect. The walls were 
erefted as a defence againft the Indians; and they have 
been found ufeful even fo late as the year 1736. They 
were alfo ufeful on occafion of the large fairs held in 
Montreal, to which the Indians from all parts reforted 
with their furs ; becaufe they enabled the inhabitants to 
fhut them out at night, when danger might have attended 
their remaining in a ftate of intoxication, to which they 
are much addicted. However, Montreal has been always 
an eafy conqueft to regular troops. The greater number 
of the inhabitants conlifts ofperfons of French extraction; 
all the eminent merchants, however, and the principal 
people of the town, are Englifh, Scotch, and Irifh, or their 
defeendants. The French retain, in a great meafure, the 
manners and cuftoms, as well as the language, of their 
anceftors. The people of this town are, in general, hof- 
•3 pitabk 
