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Show TRAVELS THROUGH LOWER CANADA: L E T T E R XXIV. Situation qf tbe City if .Cf<.J_Fbec.- Di·vided into Ujif){!r and Lower' 'fo'wn.DifcnjJtton of c 7Ch.-Grcat Stre11gtb of the UjljJCr crown.-Somc Ob. fi.'rvatious on tbe CajJture qf ~cbec by the Euglijb Army un&r Gcmral /iVo!J'c.-OI:Ji'rvations ou Mrmtgomery's m t! AJ'nolcl's Attack. duri11g tbl! /lmcriaw TYtzr .-C cnjiu q/ 1ll/Jobitaut s of ?<!,wbec.-'the Chateau.: llx R,.fid.m:c q{t/Je Govenzor.-Mo1 ajle1:v of the Recof.lefls.-Coflcg~· ~f tbc 'Jt.fuits.-On.• 'Jtjllit 1·emai1 i11g qf gn•at Age.-llis great 11/Mit!J.His L'baraclcr.-NunJzerics.-Ji,n._ ·in:e1·'s D rawing Ro1n.-Statc Il:m} ·. -Annoury.-Barracks .-M1rk.et -place.-Dogs t!fc'd in CLlrl s .-Grandeur qf tbc PrqfpdlsfrotiJ Part's oj tbt Upper 'Iown .-Charnu'ng Scen.:ry_ qf the Envirom.-Dl)cription qf Montmorenci Water Faii.-Of La Ch1wdiere lVatt!r Fall. ~cbcc, Auguft T II E city of ~ebec is fituated on a very lofty point of lanJ, on the north-weft fide of the River St. LawretlCC. Nc<trly facing it, 011. the oppofite n1ore, there is another point, and betwe~n t ll: two the river is contracred to the breadth of thtec quarters ol· a mtl,:, but afte .· pa/Tl ·1g through this firait it cxp.wds to the breadth of five or ltx m il ·s, tal ·;:; a great [weep behind th at point whereon ~ bee fiands. The ·ity derives its name frum t 'H.: word ~eb'ec or ~t~...bcio, which fignifies in the Algonquin tongue, a fudd -:n contt a(tion of a river. The wide part of the river, imm(.: di,ttdy bcior(.; the town, is called The Bafon, and it is Cufficiently deep a\1d fpacious to flu•tt upwJrds of one hnmln:d i•ltl of t:1e line. ~c.:bec 1s divided into twu parts; the upper town, fituatcd on a rock of limdl:one, on the top of the point; and thl: lower town, built round the bottom of the point, clofe to the wate r. The rock whereon the upp ' r town fbnds, in fome places towards the ·watc..:r rifes nearly per ,,_ ndicularly, (o as to be totally inacccfliblc; in other places it is not fo :flu p but that there is a communication between the two towns, ;··-···-.... .... |