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nearer to the barracks. On the opposite side 
of the town, towards the water, is another small 
square where the market is held. 
There are six churches in Montreal; one for 
English Episcopalians, one for Presbyterians, 
and four for Roman Catholics. The cathedral 
church belonging to the latter, which occu¬ 
pies one side of La Place d’Armes, is a very 
spacious building, and contains five altars, all 
very richly decorated . The doors of this ca¬ 
thedral are left open the greater part of the 
day, and there are generally, numbers of old 
people in it at their prayers, even when no re¬ 
gular service is going on. On a fine Sunday 
n the summer season, such multitudes flock to 
it, that even the steps at the outside are cover¬ 
ed with people, who, unable to get in, remain 
there kneeling with their hats off during the 
whole time of divine service. Nearly all the 
christenings, marriages, and burials of the 
Roman Catholic inhabitants of Montreal are 
performed in this church, on which occasions, 
as well as before and during the masses, they 
always ring the bells, to the great annoyance 
of ev^ry person that is not a lover of discords; 
for instead of pulling the bells, w hich are five 
in number, and really well 'toned, with regu¬ 
larity, they jingle them all at once, without any 
sort of cadence whatever. Our lodgings hap- 
