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some smaller streams, upon all of which there 

 are both saw and corn-mills ; the prevailing sorts 

 of timber are beech, ash, maple, and some oak. 

 The greatest part of this property is conceded, 

 and most of the lots settled upon by an indus- 

 trious tenantry. At the mouth of Riviere du 

 Ch6ne is the pleasant well built village of St. 

 Eustache, containing from 80 to 90 houses, a 

 handsome church, and parsonage-house. The 

 concessions on the Riviere St. Jean and Du 

 Ch^ne are in a good state of cultivation, that 

 does some credit to the husbandry of their oc- 

 cupiers, and shews the beneficial effects of in- 

 dustry, well directed, upon a generous soil. The 

 prospect from the village of St. Eustache is 

 beautiful ; the fine well stocked settlements upon 

 the Isle Jesus, the mill westward of the village, 

 with the numerous and well diversified islands 

 scattered about the river, present altogether a 

 very happy specimen of the picturesque. 



Blainville (the second division of Mille 

 Isles), joins Du Chene, is nearly three leagues 

 in front by three in depth, and the property of 

 M. La Croix. This seigniory bears a strong 

 affinity to Du Chene, as far as respects the na- 

 ture of its soil, local varieties, and species of 

 timber with which it is stocked. Part of the 

 river Mascouche runs through it, and several 

 small rivulets conduce to its fertility by distri- 



