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32 of Monieur Chevalier, but now in poeion of their Englih. The Governor's houe, which takes it name from the place about it, was a uperb manion, tiling in all the pride of architecture, Over the margin of the Canoes, and decorated inide in a tyle of unrivalled elegance: part of the funiture was covered with a rich embroidered attin, and the very purdoes of the windows were of carlet quilted attin. The avenue to this grand edifice was haded on both ides: with rows of emobwering trees; and the beauty, the fragrance of his gardens, which perfumed the wanton air, ravihed the enes: his fih-ponds, cacades, and groves; heightened the imagery of the ried