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Show Q_ U E B E C. towns, by means of flrccts winding up the fide of it, though even here the a(ccnt is o great, that there arl.! long flights cf fiairs at one fide of the firects lor the ac mmotbti\Jil of foo t paill-ngers . The.; lower town lies very much ·xpo(~.:d to an enemy} bl.!ing dc..:fcnc.lcd merely by a finall b:1ttcty towards the balun, which at the ttnH.: of high tides is nc:uly on a levd \ ·ith the water, and by barriers tow.ml · the river, in which gun may be planted when there i · any c anger of an a ttaek. The upper town, however, is a pl.tcc of i nmen(.:: fircnf)" h. Towards the water it is io ilron gly gu.mied by nature, that it is fou 11d l1t111cc .... l1:u-y to have more than very !light wall s ; and in i(n. · p: t ticuhr pbc s, where the.; rock i inacceD'bk, , n.: 110 w.1Jls Jt al l. There arc fcvcr.1l redoubt and batteries how<.:ver here. The prit ci11~ l b ttcry, whid1 points towards the bafon, con{}fl:s or twL:nty-two twent y-four pounders, two French thirty -fix pounders, and two Lu·be iron ' rtars; this battery is flanked by another of fix guns, that commands the pa1fes from the lower town. On the bml fide, t 1c town owes its fireng t!t fo1cly to the hand of art, and I ere the _f; rtifical;ons ate filip endous. C nftdcrabk additions and imprvv, 1.: ·1 ts have )Cen maJc to them fine.; the place has been in the poDdJ]on ot r ,rcat Brit"in; but even at the time wh<.:n it b longed to I'n11L~. tt1 .. \ •orks wen.; {(l firong, that 1 J i 1t not been for the condu:. 1: of IV . v · Tvlontcalm, the Fr ·nc:h gencr tl, .tis almofi doubtful whethe · lh~ ~rcn·us ftht.: iti Jmo ·tal Wolfe hmidf w uld not have been bamt"d 111 att mptin14 to rctiu e it. llc~ M. de l\lfontcal:1l, when the 1irl1 intelligence of tht.: Dritiih army's having afl:cnded the IJc:ights of Ahr:1ham w.ts carried tt) him, inilcad of dt1h-.lieving the account, and laughing :1t it as a thing impoilible, marcl ed irnmediatt.:ly to the attack, without givin()' General Wolft.: time to form his men; or haJ he, wh n the account wa.s confirmed of the enemy·~ procedure, an of thcir havin_s formed on the )lain, waited for a lart,e divif1on of his trcops, whofc fiation was below the town, and who might have joined him in two hours, infiead of marching out to give G neral Wolfe batlle with tb~..; troops he haJ with him at the time, the f.1tc |
