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with wheat, Indian corn, and other grain; of 

 late years they have also planted potatoes in 

 considerable quantities : from these sources, 

 increased by the produce of the chase, which a 

 part of the men follow during the winter season, 

 a subsistence is derived, that apparently they 

 enjoy with some of the comforts of civiUsation. 



MiLLE Isles (the seigniory of) is on the 

 north side of the Riviere St. Jean or Jesus, one 

 part of it lying in the county of York, and the 

 other within that of Effingham, four leagues 

 and a half in front by three in depth, bounded 

 south-west by the seigniory of Lac des deux 

 Montagnes, north-east by Terrebonne, and on 

 the rear by the township of Abercrombie. It 

 was granted May 5th, 1714, to M. M. de 

 Langloiserie and Petit. At present it forms two 

 distinct seigniories, called Du Chene and Blain- 

 ville. The land within the grant of Mille Isles 

 is for the most part a good, rich and productive 

 soil of different compositions, very eligible for 

 raising all the various sorts of grain and other 

 productions usual in this part of the province. 

 The division called Du Chene, the property of 

 M. Dumont, joins the seigniory of Lac des deux 

 Montagnes, is nearly two leagues in front by 

 three deep ; extremely well watered by the 

 Grande Riviere du Chene or Belle Riviere, and 



