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keep up a communication through this distance : 

 but in winter, the route upon the ice along this 

 part, and on the north side of the lake into 

 Upper Canada, is preferred, as being shorter 

 than the road leading by the side of the river 

 Delisle : this road is, however, called the prin- 

 cipal one between the two provinces, but it 

 will require much amendment to render it so 

 convenient as it ought to be for the increasing 

 intercourse between these parts. The greatest 

 part of the concessions*, in New Longeuil, are 

 about Ance auxBatteaux andPointe auBaudet, 

 on each side of the river Delisle, and still fur- 

 ther to the rear in the Cotes St. George and St. 

 Andre, where a number of Scotch families are 

 settled, whose industry has so far benefited their 

 lands, that they are now among the best parts 

 of the seigniory, although the other conceded 

 lots are in a very fair state of agricultural im- 

 provement. The male inhabitants of this and 

 three or four other seigniories in this part of the 



* By tlie term concession is meant the lots of land usually 

 about three acres in front by 20, 30, or 40 in depth, which are 

 let by the seigniors at some trifling rent, either of money or 

 produce, according to their quality, to such persons as are will- 

 ing to settle upon and cultivate them. As it is an object 

 M'orthy the attention of proprietors to concede as many of these 

 lots as they can, the conditions are in general favourable to the 

 tenants, in order to give every encouragement to bringing new 

 lands into tillage. 



