CITADEL. 
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Quebec is indebted for much of its strength to 
the severity and great length of the winter, as 
in that season it is wholly impracticable for a 
besieging army either to carry on any works or 
blockade the town. 
It requires about five thousand soldiers to 
man the works at Quebec completely. A 
large garrison is always kept in it, and abund¬ 
ance of stores of every description. The 
troops are lodged partly in barracks, and 
partly in blockhouses near Cape Diamond, 
which is toe most elevated part of the point, 
and is reckoned to be upwards of one thousand 
feet above the level of the -river. The Cape 
is strongly fortified, and may be considered as 
the citadel of Quebec ; it commands the town 
in evefy direction, and also the plains at the 
outside of the walls. The evening and morn¬ 
ing guns, and all salutes and signals, are bred 
from hence. Notwithstanding the great height 
of the rock above the river, water may readily 
be had even at the very top of it, by sinking- 
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wells of a moderate depth, and in some par¬ 
ticular places, at the sides of the rock, it gushes 
out in large streams. The water is of a very 
good quality. 
No census has been lately taken of the num¬ 
ber of houses and inhabitants in Quebec ; but 
it is supposed that, including the upper and 
lower towns and suburbs, there are at least 
