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which requires only the operation of draining 

 to be converted into good and profitable land. 

 To the south-west the ground rises much above 

 the level of the opposite side, and abounds with 

 many spots suitable to the production of grain 

 of all sorts, as well as favourable to the cultiva- 

 tion both of hemp and flax, and every other 

 requisite purpose of farming. The woods afford 

 abundance of fine trees, but beech and maple 

 most predominate; there is, however, great 

 plenty of all the other useful sorts, either 

 for timber or fuel. The rivers Delisle and 

 Baudet water it very commodiously : the first 

 crosses it diagonally from Upper Canada, where 

 it has its source, into the seigniory of Soulange ; 

 and the latter at its south-west angle, from the 

 upper part of the township of Lancaster to 

 Pointe au Baudet : neither of them are naviga- 

 ble, though on the latter, whose banks are much 

 the highest and the current strongest, large 

 quantities of staves and other timber felled in 

 its vicinity are floated down to the Saint Law- 

 rence in the spring, when the stream is swelled 

 by the melted snow and ice; they both turn 

 some good grist and saw mills. The front of 

 the seigniory, along the St. Lawrence, between 

 Ance aux Batteaux and Pointe au Baudet, is 

 very low, and overflowed so frequently as to 

 make it impracticable to maintain a road fit to 



