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Tetes, or Ash Island, near the mouth of River 

 La Colle, is included in this grant. The same 

 lowness and swampy nature of the soil that 

 marks the two preceding seigniories charac- 

 terises this one also ; but such parts of it as are 

 cultivated, or capable of being so, are of a rich 

 quality and very fertile : it abounds with fine 

 timber of many sorts, among which there is 

 found some pine of large dimensions. The 

 Riviere du Sud, that falls into the Richelieu a 

 little below Isle aux Noix, waters this seigniory 

 very conveniently, and is navigable for boats 

 and canoes about six miles. To it there is 

 a road from Missisqui Bay, by which pro- 

 duce, after being brought from Phillipsburg by 

 the ferry, is conveyed in waggons to be em- 

 barked and sent down the Richelieu to St. John^s 

 and other places: both here and in the adjoin- 

 ing seigniories, on the boundarjs there is a field 

 for improvements of the greatest utility. Were 

 a canal to be cut to connect Missisqui Bay and 

 Riviere du Sud (which would not require more 

 than two miles and a half or three miles), it 

 would be most eminently serviceable, not only 

 to the settlers of the neighbourhood, but like- 

 wise to the new townships on the Canadian 

 frontier, containing a population that, in 1812, 

 exceeded seventeen thousand ; bv such a canal 

 the intercourse with the Richelieu would be to- 



