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the owner resides in the only house upon it, 

 which is charmingly situated. The others are 

 of little extent, but furnish excellent pasturage 

 and some good meadow land ; they belong to 

 two persons, whose names are Dubreuil and 

 Montreuil, who are also proprietors of the 

 ferries, on each side of the Riviere des Prairies. 

 The Isle St. Paul lies a short distance from that 

 of Montreal, and a little above the town, it is 

 about three miles in circumference, and was 

 granted to the Sieur Le Ber, April 23d, 1700 ; 

 it now belongs to one of the communities of 

 nuns at Montreal. 



Isle Jesus (the seigniory of) is in the county 

 of Effingham, comprehending the whole of the 

 island, in length twenty-one miles, and six at 

 its greatest breadth, lying north-west of that of 

 Montreal, from which it is separated by the 

 Riviere des Prairies, and from the main land by 

 the Riviere St. Jean or Jesus. It was granted, 

 with the Isles aux Vaches adjacent thereto, the 

 23d October, 1699, to the bishop and ecclesias- 

 tics of the seminary of Quebec, by whom it is 

 still possessed. The original name was L'Isle 

 de Montmagny ; but soon after its grant the 

 proprietors thought proper to bestow on it the 

 appellative it now bears. The land is every 

 where level, rich, and well cultivated : on the 

 south-east side, bordering the river, there are 



