Saguenay country, &ec. 55 
the Jesuits) of the most authentic character. The King of 
France had reserved to himself this country comprising the 
best hunting grounds in the whole of North America, It 
is said to produce furs of certain descriptions that are not 
equalled any where. This reserved tract of country was 
farmed out or let, 
By an Arrét of Council of 16th May 1677, and by a subse- 
quent Ordounance of the Provincial Intendant of 1720, an ex 
act plan was ordered (o be made of this country after actual 
survey ; which was finally carried into effect between the 
years 1731 and 1733, (eleven or twelve years before the 
publication of Chartevoix’s general map) as appears from the 
ordonnance of the intendant, bearing date the 23d May, 
1733. (Ldits and Ordonnances II. 87.) 
The tract of country thus surveyed is bounded in front by 
the river St. Lawrence, beginning at the lower end of the 
Seigniory of the Eboulemens, and extending to Cape Cor- 
morant, a distance of about ninety-five leagues ; on the west 
by au imaginary line running east and west from the aforesaid 
lower end of the Seigniory of the Eboulemens, to the height 
of lan at the carrying place of Lake Patitachekao in the la- 
titude of 47°15’; thence rnoning west towards Three Ri- 
vers, and in depth to the height of land, at about two leagues 
from the small Lake of Patitaouaganiche, in latitude 48>. 
18’; thence tothe Lake Askatiche into which the former 
Lake empties itself, whence they fall into the river Nekowba 
which receives ulso the waters of Lake Nekoaba all of which 
emply themselves into Lake St. John, and thence into the 
Saguenay, with all the country comprized within these waters; 
on the east by Cape Cormorant and thence to the height of 
land comprizing the River Moisy, Lake Kichestigaux, the 
Jake of the Nuskapis, and the other Rivers and Lakes 
emptying into them. 
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