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Chateauguay; in North Georgetown, 43 lots ; 

 and in Orme's Town, 47 lots, all on the Cha- 

 teauguay: in Mary's Town, 57 lots ; in Helens 

 Town, 6l lots ; and in Catharine Town, 20 lots, 

 all on the St. Laurence : at the mouth of the 

 river St. Louis is the domain called St. Louis, 

 where there are some good corn and saw mills ; 

 there are also several others in the different 

 concessions ; in St. Mary's Town there is another 

 domain called du Buisson. Previous to the 

 Commencement of hostilities between Great 

 Britain and the United States, the population 

 of Beauharnois was a mixture of Canadians 

 and Americans, the latter amounting to about 

 200 families, who, on that event taking place, 

 immediately withdrew into their own country, 

 as did many others who were settled in the 

 townships l3ang near the province line. The 

 relative position of this property and that of 

 the adjoining townships with the United 

 States must ensure great advantages when the 

 amicable commercial intercourse between the 

 two countries is uninterrupted, from lying, as 

 they do, contiguous to the line of communi- 

 cation to Montreal, with roads in many di- 

 rections, numerous routes for an expeditious 

 water conveyance, and a soil so fertile, that 

 where it is cultivated produces abundant crops, 



