towards La Sall6 is well settled and cultivated 

 by Canadian families ; but from the river St. 

 Regis towards the St. Lawrence the remaining 

 part is covered with wood of all the ordinary 

 species, except a small portion reserved by the 

 proprietors for their own uses. The village of 

 Coghnawaga is placed on the banks of the St. 

 Lawrence, and consists of a church, a house for 

 the missionary, who resides with them, and 

 about 140 others, principally built of stone, 

 formed into two or three rows, something re- 

 sembling streets, but not at all to be remarked 

 either for interior or exterior cleanliness or re- 

 gularity; their occupants may be altogether 

 about 900, who chiefly derive a subsistence 

 from the produce of their corn-fields and rear- 

 ing some poultry and hogs, sometimes assisted 

 by fishing, and the acquisitions of their hunting 

 parties, which however they do not, as in an 

 uncivilised state, consider their principal em- 

 ployment. This tribe, the most numerous of 

 any that has been brought within the pale of 

 Christianity in Canada, is of the Iroquois na- 

 tion, and has long been settled within a few 

 miles of their present village; as they are the 

 descendants of some of the earliest converts that 

 were made by the pious zeal of the Jesuit mis- 

 sionaries, and established within the protection 

 of the colony when its own population and 



