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mountains, covered with beech, birch, maple 

 and pine timber. The shores of the bay, south 

 of the village, are rather high, with a gentle 

 slope down to the water s edge ; but they sub- 

 side to the general level on advancing towards 

 the head of it. It is watered by several streams, 

 the largest of which is Pike River, that has its 

 source in the adjoining township of Dunham, 

 and, after winding a A^ery irregular course through 

 the seigniory and the township of Stanbridge, 

 falls into Missisqui Bay. This property is well 

 located with respect to the means of improve- 

 ment, as it adjoins the state of Vermont, which 

 is both a populous and flourishing district, 

 with good roads leading in every direction, be- 

 sides the main road that runs through Phil- 

 lipsburg by Burlington and Vergennes, down 

 to Albany, and which is the most direct line of 

 communication with New York; it cannot but 

 benefit by the advantages to be derived from 

 so easy an intercourse with a country that has 

 already made great progress in agricultural 

 knowledge. The first settlement made within 

 this seigniory was in the year 1785, by some 

 Dutch loyalists, whose industry was so well 

 applied that the increase has been so rapid as 

 to make it an estate of great value ; there are 

 187 lots of 200 acres each conceded, besides an 

 extent of nearly three miles in depth from Mis- 



