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inonly 40 arpens^long and bat three broad, 

 if the foil be of equal goodnefs throughout; 

 but they get fomev»^hat more, if it be a 

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

 tles to cultivate fuch a piece of land, he is 

 at firfl affifted by the king, who fupplies 

 himfelf, his v/ife and children, with provi- 

 fions, during the three or four firfl years. 

 The king likewife gives him a cow, and 

 the moft neceffary inftram.ents for agricul- 

 ture. Some foldiers are fent to affiil: him 

 in building a houfe, for which the king 

 pays them. Thefe are great helps to a poor 

 man, who begins to keep houfe, and it 

 feems that in a country where the troops 

 are fo highly diflingulflied 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 

 B 2 old 



* An Jr/>^nt m France coniRics loo Froici? psiches, and 

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

 to tkie. Engl-p as 1440 to 1352, an arpent is about 2346 

 Englijh feet and 8 inches long. See Orao7inanciS de Louis 

 XU'./ur lefait des Eaiix ^ Forets. Paris, 1687. p. 1 1 2. F. 



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

 peut was fo df;termined, 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 i^r/2«f^, which by order of 

 king Lezvis XIF, was fixed at 2200 feet, Parii meafure, 

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

 of the text. F. 



