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two leagues, but the two others only a mile or 

 two from their mouths. Near the Bayonne 

 there is a spring highly impregnated with salt, 

 from the waters of which that article may and 

 sometimes is made of a very good quality. On 

 the best cultivated ranges the wood is nearly all 

 cleared away; but on the others, and in the back 

 districts, there still remains abundance of bois 

 de chauffage, or fuel, with some little maple, 

 beech, and cedar. The village of Berthier is 

 pleasantly situated on the north side of the 

 Chenail du Nord,and forms one principal street, 

 consisting of at least eighty houses ; or rather, 

 they are placed sometimes at long intervals on 

 the side of the main road to Quebec : many of 

 them are extremely well-built and handsome. 

 There are, exclusive of dwellings, a great many 

 granaries and store-houses for general merchan- 

 dise, it being a place of some trade, from whence 

 British manufactured goods are dispersed over 

 the neighbouring populous seigniories, and from 

 whence also large quantities of grain are an- 

 nually exported. The church, that claims no- 

 tice not only as being a handsome structure, 

 but for the elegance of its interior decoration, 

 is situated at a small distance behind the main 

 street. This village being about mid-way be- 

 tween Montreal and Three Rivers, in the direct 

 route of the public stage coaches that have been 



