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sorts for fuel, with beech, birch, and maple^ 

 some oak, and a little pine. A small range on 

 the west bank of L'Assomption is all that in 

 either seigniory is under culture. 



Berthier (the seigniory of), on the north 

 bank of the St. Lawrence, in the county of 

 Warwick, with its fiefs and augmentations, is 

 bounded on the south-west by the seigniory of 

 Dautreand augmentation, as recently described ; 

 on the north-east by those of Dusable or New 

 York, and Maskinonge; in the rear by the town- 

 ship of Brandon, and in front by the St. Law- 

 rence; was granted 27th April, 1674, to M. 

 Berthier; the augmentation was granted 31st 

 December, 1732, to Sieur Pierre L'Etage : the 

 property, as it is at present possessed by the 

 Hon. James Cuthbert, is two leagues and three 

 quarters in front, by four and a half in depth. 

 Of ten ranges of concessions, containing 600 

 lots or thereabouts, nearly all are in the hands 

 of tenants, but many of them retained as wood- 

 lands, and not settled upon. The soil in general 

 is good, except towards the rear, where it is 

 rocky and sterile; in the concession called St. 

 Cuthbert it is a fine vegetable earth several 

 inches deep, on a subsoil of strong clay; in 

 that of St. Esprit a strong deep loam; in St. 

 Pierre a rich light earth ; in St. Catherine a 

 small part is a good loam, and the rest of some- 



