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ble all the summer season for boats and rjifts, 

 offers many inducements to settlers in the ad- 

 vantages of its situation, and possessing in other 

 respects great capabilities of being highly im- 

 proved. 



Mont ARViLLE (the seigniory of) lies in the 

 county of Kent, between those of Boucherville 

 and Chambly, bounded on the north-east by the 

 seigniory of Beloeil and its augmentation, and 

 on the south-west by Fief Tremblay : it extends 

 one league and thirty French arpens in front, 

 by one league and a half in depth; was granted, 

 October 17, 1710, to Sieur Boucher, and is now 

 the property of Rene Labruere and X. Beaubien, 

 Esqrs. The land in this grant is of a good species, 

 producing grain and vegetables of all the sorts 

 common to the country, in great abundance ; 

 about two thirds of it is under a very favourable 

 system of husbandry. What wood remains is 

 chiefly of the inferior sort, used for fuel, with 

 but very little timber among it. Towards the 

 north-eastern angle of the seigniory is the Moun- 

 tain of Boucherville, on whose summit are two 

 small lakes, from whence descends the only 

 rivulet that waters the property, which, in its 

 course down the dechvit}^ turns two grist-mills; 

 the first of them agreeably and singularly enough 

 situated on the brow of the mountain. A road 

 leading from the St. Lawrence to the Richelieu 



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