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American governments; on the south-west by 

 the province of Upper Canada and the Grand 

 or Ottawa river; and on the north and north- 

 west it may be supposed to run as far as the 

 limits of the province in that direction, which 

 is the 52 degree of north latitude. The per- 

 pendicular breadth from St. Regis, along the 

 general course of the river, is 73t miles. It 

 contains the counties of York, Effingham, 

 Leinster, Warwick, Huntingdon, Kent, Surrey, 

 Bedford, Richelieu, and Montreal ; each send- 

 ing two members to the provincial parliament, 

 except Bedford, which elects but one ; 56 seig- 

 niories and fiefs ; 32 whole townships, and part 

 of eight intersected by the district line of Three 

 Rivers ; all of these are already laid out into 

 separate lots, besides 32 others, that have only 

 been projected ; and 54 parishes, with a part 

 of that of Yamaska, lying principally within 

 the adjoining district. The lands granted en 

 fief et seigneurie amount to 2,786,101 acres, or 

 3,269,966 superficial French arpents; and of the 

 townships mentioned as being laid out 816,776 

 acres have been granted. The proportion of 

 these two quantities now under cultivation may 

 be taken at somewhat more than one half for 

 such as are held under the French grants ; but 

 in the townships the amount is comparatively 

 small, as must necessarily be the case from the 



