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of which the parishes of St. EHzabeth in the 

 rear, the banks of the St. Lawrence, the Coteaus 

 St. Martin and St, Emily, are perhaps the most 

 flourishing. There is no village ; but good houses, 

 with substantial and extensive farm buildings, 

 are dispersed over it in all parts. 



D'AiLLEBouT D'Argenteuil (the seig- , 

 niory of), in the county of Warwick, is bounded 

 in front by the Riviere L'Assornption, on the 

 south-west by the township of Kildare, on the 

 north-east by the seigniory of De Ramzay, and 

 in the rear by waste crown lands; a league 

 and a half in front by four leagues in depth : 

 was granted October 6th, 1736, to Sieur Jean 

 D'Aillebout d'ArgenteuiL 



De Ramzay (the seigniory of) joins d'Ail- 

 lebout, and is bounded on the north-east by the 

 township of Brandon; of precisely the same 

 dimensions as the preceding one ; was granted 

 7th October, 1736, to Dame Genevieve de Ram- 

 zay, widow of Sieur de Boishebert. Both seig- 

 niories are now the property of the heirs of the 

 late Hon. P. L. Panet. These grants consist 

 of good rich land in the lower part, but in the 

 rear, approaching the mountains, the soil is 

 either a hard unfruitful clay, upon which the 

 farmer's labour would be thrown away, or irre- 

 gular and broken strata of rock. It is however 

 tolerably well timbered, beside the common 



