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fact, nearly the whole of it is now under cul- 

 tivation, and generally produces very good 

 average crops of all sorts. The wood remaining 

 upon it is inconsiderable in quantity, and only 

 of the inferior species. Two small rivulets that 

 fall into the St. Laurence partially water it to- 

 wards the front, one of which works the seig- 

 norial mill in its course ; there is no stream 

 whatever in the lower part. There is a main 

 Toad leading from the village of Boucherville 

 down to the Richelieu, and from thence to 

 Chambly ; several other roads that are well kept 

 up, pass through all the settled parts of the 

 seigniory. The village is most agreeably and 

 conveniently seated on the bank of the river; it 

 contains from 90 to 100 houses, a church and 

 parsonage-house, a chapel and a convent, or 

 rather a residence for two or three of the sisters 

 of the congregation of Notre Dame at Mont- 

 real, who are sent hither from the chief establish- 

 ment as missionaries for the education of fe- 

 males. There is likewise a school for boys. 

 In this place many families, who still retain 

 some of the titles of the ancient noblesse of the 

 country, have fixed their residence, and formed 

 a society to themselves, whereiR much of the 

 ceremony and etiquette that used to charac- 

 terise the titled circles of the French nation is 

 still observable, diminished indeed in splendour, 



