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Rh other short Greets nscendj ncnitothepl intof tin- river, h h i squares: one lorn] ket-placc; the other, called Hie Place cFsli contains the |>i incipal llomnn ( 'a- tholic church : besides which there are two others ; also three convents and ;i leminary, nil belong ing to the uch inhabitants of that commu- nion. The seminary or colle fundsofthe Jesuit's College, which i i ; i < 1 been bin ni dow ri Lu the last fire, This cch brated order became very lately < !iiHi in < anada. It l.i'i which devolved to the < i I lie b uar- I 'i ■ I'i bj tc i m I Anab rtin r -ii i » ii •!■ tares, 'i tcstanl < ■ ice alternately ^ith the ■ sentci in the former, u church is finished. U cs! ornament oft] i edifice Cot the < well situated, in i of architecture) extr< mcl dious, containing a well r< and n en publii ! be considered ai build in r in i ry. .All the priv tte b but a great portion has been libe rally consigned by government to (real, i-vcn the iilu ... the uses for which it was inteiulcd. exception of Sir J The building tonus a large plain quadrangle of four stories; it con- tain a chapel, hall, and library, m itli suitable offices, and . dations itudcnl ; but the site is erv indifferent. The general hospital, called the Grey Nunnery, is <>.'i an extensive scale : it receives the sick ami indi- gent, not only of the city, but of all  Inch is a spacious, m I are buill in the old Fren frith thick stone wall • ng roofs covered with •incut 9 indows, with dow-shutters cased ^  i t ! * Bheet iron, These peculiai pre- servatives against lire, • a heavy and sombre ap] which by no an b the the surrounding country. The sick I chara< tnts. are tended with the utmost care and I There is a well executed mamo* '.iiily by the nuns : who, altho' leum ami pillar raised on they have taken the veil, maybe mountain of Montreal, to idcred as lay sisters, for they awry of Mr. Jff'Tavisb, wi are employed in offices and works be seen from the i of the most active benevolence, and ide a large fortni by no means confined to the walls of north- wtst traffic, with fte fairest their pon ents. There are also a few respectabji - of the prosjperhj an leufi looking, ii'noi handsome, buildings of the pi erected by the English. The new Episcopal church, owing to a failure of the kinds and subscriptions, a The inhabitants of this city were araoi siill unfinished : it is [fed in one a fine trout of hewn ston ler, but can scarce:
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