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rrionly 40 arpens*\ong and but three broad, 

 if the foil be of equal goodnefs throughout ; 

 but they get fornewhat more, if it be a 

 worfe ground -f-. As foon as a foldier fet- 

 tles to cultivate fuch a piece of land, he is 

 at firft affifted by the king, who fupplies 

 himfelf, his wife and children, with provi- 

 fions, during the three or four firft years. 

 The king likewife gives him a cow, and 

 the moft neceflary inftruments for agricul- 

 ture. Some foldiers are fent to affift him 

 in building a houfe, for which the king 

 pays them. Thefe are great helps to a poor 

 man, who begins to keep houfe, x and it 

 feems that in a country where tbe troops 

 are fo highly diftinguifhed by the royal fa- 

 vour, the king cannot be at a lofs for foldiers. 

 For the better cultivation and population of 

 Canada, a plan has been propofed fome 

 years ago, for fending 300 men over from 

 France every year, by which means the 



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* An Arpcnt\n France contains 100 French perches, and 

 each of thofe 22 French feet ; then the French foot being 

 to the Englljh as 1440 to 1352, an arpent is about 2346 

 Englifo feet and 8 inches long. See Ordinances de Louis 

 XlP.fur lefait des Eaux & Forets. Paris, 1687. P- } I2 * F 



f Mr. Kalm fays, in his ordinal, that the length of an ar- 

 pent was fo determined, that they reckoned 84 of them in 

 a French lieue or league; but as this does by no means- 

 agree with the ftatute arpent of France, which by order of 

 king Lewis XIP, \v.1o fixed at 2200 feet, Par;; meafure, 

 (fee the preceding note) we thought proper to leave it out 

 of the text, F. 



