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pitable and attentive to ftrangers; they are fociable among 
themfelves, and fond of convivial amulements. 
The iiland of Montreal is about twenty-eight miles in 
length, and ten in breadth.- Its foil is luxuriant, and in 
fome parts much cultivated, and thickly inhabited. It is 
agreeably diverfified with hill and dale, and towards its 
centre, in the vicinity of the town, there are two or three 
mountains. The bafe of the largelt, at the diftance ot 
a,mile, from which the town is named, is furrounded 
with neat country-houfes and gardens: on the fide to¬ 
wards the river is an old monaftery, with extenfive en- 
clofures walled in; and the open park is covered with a 
rich verdure, and it is encircled by woods, among which 
pcrfons may roam about for miles, {haded by the lofty 
trees from the rays of tire fun. The wine from hence, 
fays Mr. Weld, is good beyond defcription. A prodigious 
expanfe of country is laid open to the eye, with tire no¬ 
ble river St. Lawrence winding through it, which may be 
traced from the remoteft part of the horizon, and which, 
flowing in, pafies down the tremendous rapids above the 
■town, when it is precipitated over huge rocks, with a noife 
that is heard even up the mountain. On the left below 
appears the town of Montreal, with its churches, monaf- 
teries, glittering fpires, and the dripping under its old 
walls. Several little iflands in the river near the town, 
partly improved and partly overgrown with 'wood, add 
greatly to the beauty of the fcene. La Prairie, with its 
■large church on the diftant fide of the river, is feen to the 
greateft advantage, and beyond it is a range of lofty 
mountains, which terminates the profpeCt. The trade 
chiefly carried on at Montreal is that of fur; and here 
the greateft quantity of furs is {hipped, which are fent 
from Canada to England. For an account of the fur- 
trade, as it iscarried on by the Hudlon’s-Bay Company, 
and by the North-Weft Company, fee the article Fur- 
trade, vol.viii. p. 122-5. 
MONTREAL', a river of North America, which runs 
into Montreal -Bay, in Lake Superior. 
MONTREAL', a lhiall iiland in Lake Superior, near 
the eaft coaft. Lat. 47. 9. N. Ion. 84. 50. W. 
MONTREDON', a town of France, in the department 
•of the Aude : three miles weft of Narbonne. 
MONTREGEAU', a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Upper Garonne: fix miles eaft of St. 
Gaudens. 
MONTRESO'R, a town of France, in the department 
of the Indre and Loire: nine miles eaft of Loches, and 
■eighteen fouth of Amboife. 
MON'TRET, a town of France, in the department of 
the Saone and Loire, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diltriCt of Louhans. The place contains 811, and the 
canton 5758, inhabitants. 
MONTREVAU'LT, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Maine and Loire : iix miles fouth of St. Flo- 
rent le Viel, and thirteen north-north-weft of Chollet. 
MONTREV'EL, a town of France, in the department 
of the Ain, and chief place of a canton, in the diftriCt of 
JBourg: eight miles north-north-weft of Bourg. The 
place contains 1242, and the canton 13,659, inhabitants. 
Lat. 46.10. N. Ion. 5.13. E. 
MONTREU'IL, a town of France, in the department 
>of the Eure: ten miles fouth of Bernay. 
MONTREU'IL, a town of France, in the department 
■of Paris: three miles eaft of Paris. 
MONTREU'IL, a town of France, in the department 
>of the Aude: nine miles fouth-eaft of Troyes. 
MONTREU'IL BELLAY', a town of France, in the 
idepartmen^t of the Maine and Loire: twelve miles north- 
weft of Loudun, and leven fouth of Saumur. 
MONTREU'IL BONNIN', a town of France, in the 
■department of the Vienne, in which was formerly a mint 
for coining money: nine miles louth-weft of Poitiers. 
MONTREU'IL sur ME'R, a town, of France, and 
principal place of a diftriCt, in the department of the 
Straits of Calais, about fix miles from the fea. This town 
ds fortified, and fttuated on a confiderable eminence j it 
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contains feveral churches, and about 5000 inhabitants. 
It is eight pofts and three-quarters fouth of Calais, and 
twenty-feven and a quarter north-north-weft of Paris. 
Lat. 50. 28. N. Ion. 1. 51. E. 
MONTREV'ILL, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Nyevre : nine miles north-weft of Chateau 
Chinan. 
MONTRICHA'RD, a town of France, and feat of a 
tribunal, in the department of the Loire and Cher, on the 
Cher : fifteen miles fouth of Blois, and nine fouth-eaft of 
Aignan. Lat. 47.20. N. Ion. 1.16.E. 
MONTRICOU'X, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Lot and Garonne ; twenty-four miles fouth 
of Cahors. 
MONTRIGA'RD, a town of France, in the depart¬ 
ment of the Drome: fifteen miles north-north-eaft of 
Tain, and twelve north-north-eaft of Romans. . 
MON'TRO, a river of Canada, which runs into the 
Utawas thirty miles north-weft of Fort Culonge. 
MONTRO'SE, a royal borough and feaport town, fifix¬ 
ated on the northern ocean, in the county of Angus, or 
Forfar, Scotland, is one of the firft provincial towns of 
its fize in that kingdom, or perhaps in the whole iiland. 
It confifts of a fine fpacious main ftreet, with bye-lanes, 
the houfes of which are in general well built, but, like 
the Flemiih towns, have their gables turned towards the 
ftreet. This place is more diftinguifhed for its gaiety, and 
as the refidence of perfons of opulence and faflrion, than 
for its commerce and induftry. It has a theatre, monthly 
aifemblies, and other places of amufement ; and, during 
the laft twenty years, has been remarkable for its well- 
attended races. In the middle of the principal ftreet 
ftands the prifon, formerly the old tovvn-lioufe. The new 
town-houfe is a neat edifice, having piazzas below, and 
rooms for public bufinefs above. The parifh-church, a 
large edifice of late ereCtion, is flniihed with great ele¬ 
gance. The epifcopal chapel, fituated in the Links, to 
the eaftward of the town, is a neat building; as is like- 
wife the lunatic holpital, .ereCted in 1779, not only for 
the reception of lunatics, but alfo of indigent lick, or as 
a difpenfary for the relief of out-patients. The public 
lchools here are remarkable both for the accommodation 
they afford, and for the excellent mode of education 
adopted in them. In 1785 a public library was eftablifhed 
by fubfcription, on a moft liber.il plan, which now con¬ 
tains feveral thoufand volumes by the beft authors. Many 
improvements have been made in this town within thele 
few years; in particular, a handfome bridge has been 
thrown over each of the two rivers, the North and South 
Efk, which flow on either fide of it. From the bridge 
over the South Elk a new ftreet now extends to the mid¬ 
dle of the main one, which was formed by cutting through 
a confiderable hill, called the Fort-hill. The harbour of 
Montrofe is very commodious, and capable of receiving 
flrips of large burden ; and there is, betides, a fafe anchor¬ 
age in the river, a little below the town. A confiderable 
number of veifels belong to this port, moft of them em¬ 
ployed in the coafting and Baltic trade. There are here 
a dry and wet dock, for building and repairing fillips’. 
The principal manufactures are of linen-yarn and thread, 
fheeting, and lail-cloth. 
Montrofe is governed by aprovoft, three baillies, a dean 
of guild, and a trealurer, afiifted by thirteen counlellors. 
It unites with Aberdeen, Bervie, Brechin, and Arbroath, 
in electing a reprefentative in the imperial parliament. 
The river South Efk, immediately above the town, ex¬ 
pands into a beautiful circular Iheet of water, nearly 
three miles in diameter, called the Bafon of Montrofe. 
This baton is perfectly dry at low water; but at high 
water, veflels of fixty tons can run up to its upper end 
without hazard. Valuable falmon-filheries are eftablilhed 
on this river, as well as on the North Elk, and form a 
confiderable branch of commerce with England. Beau¬ 
ties of Scotland, vol. iii. 
MONTRO'SE, a town of United America, in Pennfyl- 
vania, and the capital of Sufquehannah county, is fituated 
nearly 
