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from being cast in moulds. It consists of two cupola 

 furnaces. The mixture of the old and new iron is found to 

 improve the quality of the recast metal. Here, besides sugar 

 and pot ash kettles, &c. &c. iron gear for steam boats is 

 manufactured. 



The establishment at St. Maurice was commenced by the 

 French Government about the year 1737} and a foundary 

 for cannon is said to have had existed here, but no vestiges 

 of any operations of the latter description remain. 



I will close this report with a short account of the Batiscan 

 works, &c. 



The river Batiscan enters the St. Lawrence from the 

 northward about twenty miles below Three Rivers. It is 

 navigable in the spring for schooners, at other times for 

 boats, nine miles above its mouth, where are the ruins of 

 an iron foundary established there about the year 1798. 



This establishment consisted of a blast and air furnace, 

 two forges, a saw and grist mill, besides other necessary 

 work shops and dwelling houses. Both ore and wood are 

 to be procured here more readily than at the forges of 

 St. Maurice. 



The cause of its failure appears to have been the want of 

 capital and good management- 



The land either is or was, until very lately, the property 

 of the Crown. 



For most of the information, which is matter of fact 

 contained in this note, I am indebted to Mr. Greaves and 

 to Mr. M'Cauley, who through the politeness of Mr. Bell, 

 had been requested to afford mc all the information I might 

 require, which they readily did in the kindest manner when 

 I visited the St. Maurice works. 



