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Whether estimated by the general goodness of 

 the land, the variety of timber of every descrip- 

 tion, among which oak, elm, pine, and beech 

 are in great quantities; the advantage of water 

 conveyance at all times from the breaking up of 

 the frost until the commencement of winter, or 

 its contiguity and easy access by main roads to 

 the State of New York, this is a most valuable 

 tract of land, affording as good a basis for im- 

 provement as perhaps any other in Lower Ca- 

 nada. On the front or north- v/est part there are 

 a few swampy places covered with cedar and 

 spruce firs, but they are of no very great extent; 

 and generally, between the banks of the Cha- 

 teauguay and the St. Laurence, a mean breadth 

 of about three leagues, the country is unexcep- 

 tionable in point of locality, as well as for 

 all agricultural purposes, abounding with many 

 spots particularly congenial to the growth of 

 hemp and flax. From the Chateauguay to the 

 township of Hemmingford there is a gradual 

 rise, with many fine bold eminences covered with 

 good timber of large dimensions, and where the 

 land is, perhaps, superior to that lying towards 

 the St. Lawrence. In the divisions of James 

 Town and South George Town is a level space 

 about three miles and a half by two, called 

 Blueberry Plains, being an horizontal stratum 

 of rock of the quartz species, from the crevices 



