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provement lie on the banks of the St. Lawrence, 

 and on both sides of the Assomption. The 

 seigniory contains two churches and parsonage- 

 houses, and one village ; many grist and saw- 

 mills are worked by the different streams and 

 rivers. The village is situated on the south- 

 west side of the Assomption, and covers about 

 half a mile square, having from eighty to ninety 

 houses, besides many storehouses, some for ge- 

 neral merchandise and the others for grain, as 

 large quantities are collected here for exporta- 

 tion ; and from hence also are dispersed over 

 the other seigniories, and the townships towards 

 the Ottawa, a good deal of merchandise, and 

 many articles of general consumption, so that 

 it is a place of some little trade : the houses of 

 the most wealthy inhabitants are exceedingly 

 well built of stone. From hence there are many 

 good roads leading to the interior of this and 

 into the adjacent seigniories; and over the large 

 rivers, bridges at convenient intervals. 



La Valtrie (the seigniory of) and its aug- 

 mentation, in the county of Warwick, has the 

 River St. Lawrence on its front, the seigniory 

 of St. Sulpice on its south-west, that of La 

 Noraye on the north-east, and the township of 

 Kildare in the rear; a league and a half in 

 breadth by the same depth ; was granted 29th 

 October, 1672, to Sieur de la Valtrie. The 



