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the grant. Under these circumstances of en- 

 croachment, occasioned by ineffectual measure- 

 ment at first, a compromise has been made, and 

 an order passed the governor and council to 

 grant the cultivated part to the present pro- 

 prietor of La Valtrie, and to reserve the re- 

 mainder for the use of the Protestant clergy 

 and future disposition of government. In front 

 of the seigniory are the two Isles de la Valtrie, 

 appendages to it. 



LANoRAYEandDAUTRE'(the seigniories of) 

 with their augmentation, lie on the north side 

 of the River St. Lawrence, in the county of 

 Warwick ; are bounded on the south-west by 

 La Valtrie, on the north-east by the seigniory 

 of Berthier, in front by the river, and in the 

 rear by the seigniories of D'Aillebout D'Ar- 

 genteuil and De Ramzay. La Noraye, two 

 leagues broad and two deep, was granted April 

 7th, 1688, to Sieur de la Noraye. Dautr6 was 

 granted in two portions ; the westerly one, half 

 a league broad by two leagues deep, to Sieur 

 Jean Bourdon on the 1st December, 1637; the 

 easterly one, of precisely the same dimensions, 

 on the 16th April, 1647, to Sieur Jean Bourdon 

 also. The augmentation, under the title of 

 Derriere Daiitre, and La Noraye, being the 

 breadth of the two former (three leagues) and 

 extending to the Riviere L'Assomption, about 



