109 



plaines it is generally of a first rate quality^ but 

 the remote parts are mountainous, with a rough 

 gravelly or stony soil. The rivers Achigan and 

 Mascouche, with three or four rivulets, water 

 it most completely. The high lands produce 

 abundance of beech, maple, birch, and elm 

 timber; in some few places that lie low and 

 wet there are cedars and spruce firs : full two- 

 thirds of this property is conceded, with the 

 greatest number of the lots in as respectable 

 a state of cultivation as any in the district, and 

 extremely productive in wheat, barley, and 

 other grains. The front along the river is par- 

 ticularly well settled, and in this tract there is 

 every appearance of comfort, and evenaflfluence, 

 among the tenantry. The different streams turn 

 some very good grist and saw-mills, but those dis- 

 tinguished by the name of the Terrebonne mills 

 are without exception the most complete and 

 best constructed of any in the country ; they 

 were very much improved by the late proprietor, 

 who used every exertion and disregarded ex pense 

 to render them of general utility to this part of 

 the district. His desire of promoting the interest 

 of the labouring part of the community has fully 

 succeeded. Some of the houses and part of the 

 machinery were destroyed by fire a few years 

 ago ; but they were immediately rebuilt, and 

 placed in their former state by the present oc- 



