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, and images of the Virgin Mary and other aints, baptimal font, and pews. Here their bells are continually tinkling for prayers, epecially on Sundays and holidays, which lat are o very numerous, that they generally occur three or four times every week; when great numbers of the French, both white and coloured people, regularly attend their priets.

The revenues of this chapel, and of the miniters thereof, principally arie from the rents of a large lot of land on which it is built; and which was granted by the Englih Commiioners, in 1763, to the French inhabitants for that purpoe, on leae for ninety-nine years. Great part of this land is let out for the remainder of the term yet to expire; and thereon are built everal good houes, the owners of which pay a yearly aeed part of the rent of the ame, excluive of the firt cot of the leae of each lot on which the houes are built. The