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accommodation is every way respectable ; the 

 environs are most agreeably diversified by gar- 

 dens and orchards in a flourishing state, mea- 

 dows, pastures, and other farm inclosures. At 

 a short distance from the village are a grist 

 and a saw-mill. Near the boundary of the 

 seigniory of Rouville there is a single mountain, 

 similar to that of Beloeil, but inferior in eleva- 

 tion and extent, adorned nearly to the summit 

 with woods, beautiful in their appearance on 

 the slopes, and containing some fine timber. 

 On the south-west side of the river is another, 

 called the Yamaska Mountain, almost of the 

 same form and magnitude, but having, among 

 the woods that spread over it, some excellent 

 fine timber. 



BouRCHEMiN (the seigniory of), on the river 

 Yamaska, in the county of Richelieu, is bound- 

 ed by the seigniories of St. Hyacinthe and St. 

 Ours on the south-west, St. Charles, Yamaska, 

 and de Ramzay on the north-east, and by Sorel 

 on the north-west; a league and a half in 

 breadth, by each side of the river, and three 

 leagues in depth; was granted, 22d June, 1695, 

 to Sieur Jacques Franpois Bourchemin, and is 

 now the property of Mrs. Barrow. 



BouRGMARiE West (the seigniory of), ex- 

 tending from the rear of the seigniory of Sorel 

 to the river Yamaska, joins Bourchemin on the 



