Montcalm and Wolfe . 1759.] QUEBEC AFTER THE SIEGE. 173 saw among the fallen planks and timbers.^ Even inthe Upper Town few of the churches and publicbuildings had escaped. The Cathedral was burnedto a shell. The solid front of the College of theJesuits was pockmarked by numberless cannon-balls,and the adjacent church of the Order was wofullyshattered. The church of the RdcoUets sufferedstill more. The bombshells that fell through theroof had broken into the pavement, and as they bursthad thrown up the bones and skulls of the dead fromthe graves beneath.^ Even the more distant Hotel-Dieu was p
Montcalm and Wolfe . 1759.] QUEBEC AFTER THE SIEGE. 173 saw among the fallen planks and timbers.^ Even inthe Upper Town few of the churches and publicbuildings had escaped. The Cathedral was burnedto a shell. The solid front of the College of theJesuits was pockmarked by numberless cannon-balls,and the adjacent church of the Order was wofullyshattered. The church of the RdcoUets sufferedstill more. The bombshells that fell through theroof had broken into the pavement, and as they bursthad thrown up the bones and skulls of the dead fromthe graves beneath.^ Even the more distant Hotel-Dieu was pierced by fifteen projectiles, some of whichhad exploded in the halls and chambers.^ The commissary-general, Berniers, thus describesto Bourlamaque the state of the town: Quebec isnothing but a shapeless mass of ruins. Confusion,disorder, pillage, reign even among the inhabitants,for the English make examples of severity every-day. Everybody rushes liither and thither, withoutknowing why. Each searches for his posses
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