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as Baroii de Longueuil's solid manor at Longueuil. (1) 

 The neighboring banal oven, has crumbled to dust ; 

 the banal grist-mill, on the brook, in view of the manor 

 for greater protection — has ceased to grind corn ; both 

 have disappeared. Mr. Drummond's seigniorial Act of 

 1854, did not even recognize the not very profitable 

 though prized privilege of the seigniorial dove-cot ! 

 Alas ! the staunch, well guarded ancient manor, 

 which sheltered the dignified Baron of other days, has 

 disappeared " with the last of the Capulets ! " 



Here is what the Abbe has to tell : " The sei- 

 gniorial residence, which M. de Gaspe has immor- 

 talized in his Anciens Canadiens under the name of 

 the manor of Haberville, stands a few acres from the 

 St. Lawrence, in front of a little cape crowned with 

 pine, spruce and silver-birch trees. At its base runs 

 the King's highway. A superb view of the river and 

 its many islands, here opens out. Facing it, looms 

 over the waters, the two pillars, well-known landmarks 

 to mariners, the wood-pillar and the stone-pillar, with 

 its luminous beacon ; one, solitary and barren, like the 

 enchantress Circe's rock of Oea ; the other, evergreen, 

 like the Isle of Calypso." 



(1) Baron de Longueil's royal patent describes his Manor 

 thus: (Seigniorial Documents — 1852, ps. 448 and -!88) "He 

 has erected at his own cost a fort supported by four strong 

 towers of stone and masonry, with a guard-house, several 

 large dwellings, a fine church, bearing all the insignia of 

 nobility 5 a spacious farm-yard, in which there is a barn, a 

 stable, a sheep pen, a dove-cot and other buildings, all of 

 which are within the area of the said fort ; next to this stands 

 a banal mill, a fine brewery of masonry, together with a large 

 retinue of servants, horses and equipages." 



In a recent history of Longueuil, it would appear that the 

 new church of Longueuil has been built over the site of the 

 glorious old Longueuil Fort. The werlike Baron apparently 

 appreciated a glass of sound ale, since he built a brewery. 



Query : Is there any more of the Baron's XX in stock in 

 Montreal ? 



