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proved. Although so well inhabited, there is 

 not a village worth notice; of two churches, 

 one is dedicated to St. Henri, and the other 

 named La Chenaie. On the Achigan there is 

 a grist-mill, and upon the Mascouche a grist 

 and a saw-milL About a mile from the river 

 Jesus is a fief, of 18 acres in front, that runs 

 into the adjoining seigniory of L'Assomption 

 as far as the limits of St. Sulpice, and of which 

 Mrs. Deviene is the proprietor. Over the dif- 

 ferent rivers there are good bridges, and from 

 La Chenaie two ferries, one to the Riviere des 

 Prairies, where one shilling and eight-pence is 

 charged; the other to isle Jesus, where only 

 ten-pence is demanded for each person. 



L^AssoMPTioN (the seigniory of) possesses 

 many local advantages, and a variety of soil 

 favourable to the encouragement of cultivation 

 in almost every branch. Towards the town- 

 ship of Rawdon the land is higher than it is in 

 the front ; consisting chiefly of a yellow loam, 

 mixed in some places with sand, which, when 

 tilled, is very fertile, but still perhaps some- 

 thing inferior to the lower parts, where there 

 are many exceeding fine tracts fit for the cul- 

 ture of every species of grain. On the uplands, 

 birch, beech, and maple timber is found in 

 great perfection, with some pine of a good 

 growth ; but in the valleys the wood is inferior 



