Magazine E., Hôtel Dieu, on Rampart street, between Palace and Hope Gates.--Acquired by purchase, 17th June, 1809. The Defences along the Ramparts between Prescott Gate, Grand Battery, Hope Gate and Palace Gate (Upper Town).--By right of conquest and military appropriation (including Rampart street and cliff underneath). Inclined Plane Wharf and land to the Cime du Cap (top of the cliff) on Champlain street, S. E. of the Citadel.--Acquired by purchase, 24th Sept., 1781, afterwards used in connection with the Citadel. Queen's Wharf premises, and small lot opposite, on Cul-de-Sac street-- Formerly a part of the defences of Quebec, site of a battery.-- Acquired by right of conquest, &c. Land at the foot of the cliff in La Canoterie and St. Charles streets, as a Glacis in front of the Town Works.--Acquired by purchase in 1846- 7, to prevent buildings against the defences. Commissariat Fuel Yard, &c., on Palace Harbor, St. Roch's.--Part of the Intendant's Palace property, held by conquest. _SEIGNIORY OF NEUVILLE COUNTY OF PORTNEUF._ (_Site of Fort Jacques-Cartier._) A strong defensive position, on the right bank of the River Jacques Cartier, about 30 miles above Quebec.--Acquired by purchase from the Seignior, 26th June, 1818. THE ENVIRONS OF QUEBEC. _INTRODUCTION._ "Oh give me a home where the maple and pine Around the wild heights so majestically twine; Oh give me a home where the blue wave rolls free From thy bosom, Superior, down to the sea." "Could you not write the history of 'Our Parish,' and also sketch briefly our country seats, marking out the spots connected with historical events?" Thus discoursed one day to us, in her blandest tones, a fair denizen of Sillery. There was a poser for a _galant homme_; a crusher for the first _littérateur_ of ... the parish. In vain did we allege we were not a "Christopher North," but a mere retiring "antiquaire"--a lover of books, birds, flowers, &c. The innate civility of a Frenchman elicited from us an unreflective affirmative reply. Thus, compassionate reader, was entrapped, caught and committed the first _littérateur_ of Sillery--irrevocably handed over to the tender mercies of all the critics, present and future, in and out of the parish. Oh, my friends, what a crunching up of literary bones in store! what an ample repast was thus prepared for all the reviewers--the Jeffreys and LaHarpes--in and out of the parish, should the luckless _littérateur_ fail to assign fairy scenery--important historical events--great battles, not only to each renowned spot, but even to the merest potato-patch, turnip-ground or cabbage-garden within our corporate limits? Yes, tremble for him.