A 



TOPOGRAPHICAL DESCRIPTION, 



Antecedent to the year 1791? the whole 

 extent of country now known as Upper and 

 Lower Canada was denominated the province 

 of Quebec, but as difficulties occurred in ma- 

 naging the concerns of so large a track, it was 

 judged expedient, for better regulating and 

 more effectually providing for its government, 

 that it should be divided into two provinces ; 

 which plan was sanctioned by an act of the 

 British parliament. 



The province of Lower Canada lies between 

 45 and 52 degrees of north latitude, and 63 

 and 81 of west longitude, nearly, from Green- 

 wich. It is bounded on the north by the 

 territory of the Hudson's Bay company or 

 East Maine ; on the east by the gulf of St. 

 Lawrence, the river St. John, and that part of 



B 



