58 MousLEY, Birds of Hatley, Que. 



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about midway between Montreal and Quebec, this waterway, no 

 doubt, forming at least one of the minor highways of migration if 

 not a principal one. The greatest elevation in the eastern part of 

 the county is Barnston Mountain. In many places the surface is 

 undulating and resembles the rolling prairies of the west, with no 

 prominent hills. With the exception of some marshy ground and 

 about 800 acres known as the "Burnt District," both near Lake 

 Massawippi there is but little waste land in the county, the greater 

 part of the hilly ground being adapted to cultivation or pasturage. 

 The soil in its native state was highly fertile and productive, the 

 hills and higher grounds being covered with a heavy growth of 

 maple, beech, birch, hop hornbeam, and white ash, whilst the lower 

 grounds produced elm, basswood, cherry, butternut, poplar, 

 hemlock, spruce, pine, cedar, fir and tamarack, but in their mis- 

 taken idea that the strength of the soil would always continue, the 

 earlier settlers devastated the County of most of its valuable 

 timber, until at the present day many of the farms have barely 

 sufficient trees left for firewood and building purposes and to form 

 sugaries. The County is divided into five townships, of which 

 Hatley forms the principal northern one, the village being situated 

 between latitude 45° 10' and 45° 12' north and longitude 71° 55' 

 and 71° 57' west, and deriving its name from a village in England, 

 no doubt that of East Hatley in the Diocese of Ely Cambridge- 

 shire. The survey determining its original boundary was made in 

 1792 and subdivision into lots in 1795 and by 1815 it had become a 

 place of some little business and importance, but now owing to the 

 fact that the nearest railway station is between three and four miles 

 away, the business done in former days when railways did not 

 exist, has been removed to other towns and villages adjacent to 

 the centers of transport. Owing to this lack of a railway, however, 

 the village at the present day retains most of its original charm and 

 beauty. It lies at an elevation of about 1000 feet above the sea 

 level, and almost through its entire length there runs a fine avenue 

 of maple trees. On the east it is backed by some hilly and well 

 wooded ground rising 350 feet or more above the level of the village, 

 whilst to the north and west the ground after rising for some dis- 

 tance falls away gradually until it reaches the level of Lake Massa- 

 wippi, a fine sheet of water nine miles in length, with an average 



