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again excite enmity between two governments, 

 the mutual interest of whose subjects it is to live 

 in amity with each other. 



CfiATEAUGUAY (the sciguiory of), on the 

 south side of the Saint Laurence, in the county 

 of Huntingdon, joins that of Beauharnois on 

 the south-west, Sault St. Louis on the north- 

 east, and La Salle in the rear; the front stretches 

 two leagues on the river by three in depth. It 

 was granted September 29th, l673, to Le Moine, 

 Sieur de Longeuil, and at present belongs to 

 the community of Grey Sisters at Montreal. 

 Through the whole of this property there is very 

 little variation in the land, which lies every 

 where nearly upon a level, generally of a good 

 cultivable quality ; the arable part producing 

 very fair crops of grain of all sorts. The rivers 

 Chateauguay and St. Regis cross it diagonally; 

 the former is navigable in the whole of its 

 course through the seigniory for bateaux and 

 rafts, but the latter does not possess these ad- 

 vantages. There are some good ranges of set- 

 tlements along the borders of the St. Laurence, 

 on both sides of the Chateauguay and St. Regis 

 rivers, and in the intermediate spaces, which 

 may be reckoned about one half of the whole 

 grant, under pretty good cultivation. This 

 seigniory cannot boast of a village ; but on the 

 western side of the Chateauguay, near its dis- 



