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1st April, 16475 to the order of Jesuits, whos6 

 possessions were once so large and valuable 

 within this province. On the demise of the 

 last of the order settled in Canada, it devolved 

 to the crown, to whom it now belongs. The 

 whole of this grant is a fine level of rich and 

 most excellent soil, where are some of the best 

 pasture and meadow lands to be found in the 

 whole district, that always yield most abundant 

 crops of good hay. The arable part is also of 

 a superior class, upon which the harvests, ge* 

 nerally speaking, exceed a medium produce. 

 In the part called Cote St. Catherine there is an 

 extensive bed of limestone. The different ranges 

 of concessions enumerate altogether about 300 

 lots of the usual dimensions, whereof the major 

 part is settled upon, and in a very favourable 

 degree of cultivation, almost entirely cleared of 

 wood, or at any rate of timber, very little of good 

 dimensions being now left standing. Numerous 

 rivulets cross it in every direction; beside these 

 it is watered by the three rivers, La Tortue, St. 

 Lambert, and La Riviere du Portage, all of 

 which traverse it diagonally from south-west to 

 north-east; neither of them navigable for boats 

 to a greater distance than half a league from 

 their mouths, and that only during the freshes 

 of the spring ; they afford however always suf- 

 ficient water to work several corn and saw-mills. 



