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SCG-C.749.058
30 Oct-6 Nov 1749:21 (808)
Philadelphia, October 12. Extract of a letter from a
Swedish gentleman at Quebec to a person in this city, dated
August 6, 1749.
I have found more learned men in Canada, than I imagined
had been in all America. . . [3 lines] The new General
Governor, Monsieur Jonquiere, who was taken prisoner by the
English in the last war, arrived here on Friday last from
France. He was received with all imaginable marks of
honour. . . [7 lines, cannon discharged, goes to Cathedral,
met by Bishop, and] he went into the church the Bishop and
Priests going and singing before him, carrying candles and
crucifixes. . .
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