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way to the grand river, but they are too incon- 

 siderable for other purposes than irrigation and 

 working of mills. 



Les Isles Bouchard, lying in front of the 

 seigniories of Vercheres and Contrecoeur, in the 

 St. Lawrence, were granted Oct. 29th, 1672, 

 to Sieur Fortel. They are together about five 

 miles in length by half a mile broad. Some 

 good meadow and pasture land is found upon 

 them, the rest is covered with wood, and among 

 it some very fine timber. On all of them the 

 soil is excellent. 



Having now finished a compressed description 

 of all the feudal tenures in the district of Mont- 

 real, I will next notice such grants as have 

 been made by the English government in free 

 and common soccage under the title of 



TOWNSHIPS. 



KiLDARE is situated in the county of War- 

 wick, and in the rear of the seigniory of La 

 Valtrie ; it was erected into a township by 

 letters patent, dated June 24, 1803*, and lands 



As a list of the several grants in free and common soc- 

 cage, made since the year \7^o, under the great seal, in such 

 tracts as are actually erected into townships within the province 

 of Lower Canada, specifying by whom each was made, the 

 time when, to whom, wliat quantity, and the proportion of 



