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flourishing settlements; the others consist prin- 

 cipally of meadow and grazing land, A little 

 to the southward of this group are Isles St. 

 Ignace, Isle Madame, Isle aux Oies, Isle Ronde^ 

 and Isle de Grace, belonging to government ; 

 these, and some others to the eastward, at the 

 entrance into Lake St. Peter, are very low, but 

 clothed with good timber ; they abound with 

 all sorts of wild fowl, as do the intervals be- 

 tween them with excellent fish of various kinds. 



La Petite Nation (the seigniory of), is 

 jsituated on the north side of the Grand or Ot- 

 tawa River, in the county of York, occupying 

 the ground of two projected townships, between 

 those of Grenville and Lochaber, five leagues in 

 front by five in depth ; was granted May l6th, 

 1674, to Messire Francois de Laval, Bishop of 

 Petree, the first Bishop of Quebec. It is now 

 the property of 1. Papineau, Esq. The whole 

 of this grant, with the exception of a small spot, 

 remains in a state of wood-land ; recently, how- 

 ever, the present proprietor, a gentleman of 

 Montreal, and for many years a member of the 

 provincial parliament, has retired to it with an 

 intention to commence a plan of improvement, 

 that, if persevered in, will be likely to realise 

 many of the advantages that its situation and 

 other favourable contingencies hold forth the 

 promise of. The Ottawa indents the front by 



