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its interior. An excellent road leads from the 

 village of Vercheres, close to the St. Laurence, 

 down the Richelieu, where it joins the main 

 public road to Chambly, &c. The church of 

 St. Mark is on the bank of the river, but there 

 is no village. 



St. Denis (the seigniory of), in the county 

 of Richelieu, is bounded in front by the seig- 

 niory of Contrecoeur, on the north-east by that 

 of St. Ours, on the south-west by Vercheres, 

 and in the rear by St. Hyacinthe; it is two 

 leagues in breadth by as many in depth ; and 

 was granted, September 20th, 1694, to Louis 

 de Ganne, Sieur de Falaise. The property now 



belongs to the heirs of Montarville, Esq. 



Nearly all the land within these limits is of a 

 good sort and very fertile, being chiefly a light 

 earth covering a yellow loam : wheat and other 

 grain is found to thrive extremely well upon it, 

 and yield ample returns. Rather more than 

 two-thirds of it are cleared and under tillao;e, 

 there being five ranges of concessions, making 

 together 300 lots, very few of which are unoc- 

 cupied. The river Richelieu runs across the 

 front, and the rear is watered by the little river, 

 or rather rivulet, called Le Miot. On the south 

 bank of the Richelieu is the village of St. Denis, 

 that numbers about eighty houses, and a very 



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