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yet been cultivated, although the soil appears 

 to be of a superior quality, and some of it fit 

 for hemp and flax, as well as all sorts of grain. 

 Most of the timber is good. It is watered by 

 part of Riviere L'Assomption and some infe- 

 rior streams. 



Rawdon, in the county of Leinster, joins 

 Kildare on the south-west. This is a full 

 township, of which very little has yet been 

 granted or even surveyed. The surface of it is 

 uneven, in many places rocky, but in others 

 having extents of good land upon which grain 

 might be raised with profit, and on some few 

 hemp and flax. On the uplands the greater 

 part of the timber is maple, beech, and birch ; 

 cedar and spruce fir abound on the lower ones. 

 It is watered by several small streams. 



Kilkenny and Abercrombie are on the 

 south-west of Rawdon ; they have both been sur- 

 veyed, but from the badness of the soil, which 

 in fact is scarcely improvable by any means, 

 at least such as settlers could have recourse to, 



links long, or other equivalent length and breadth. A rectan- 

 gular township of these dimensions contains twelve concessions 

 or ranges of lots, each lot being eighty chains and eighty links 

 long, and twenty-six chains broad, and in each range twenty- 

 eight lots, making in all three hundred and thirty-six lots of two 

 hundred acres, with the highways. Of this number two hun- 

 dred and forty are grantable to settlers, and the remaining 

 ninety-six are reserved as before mentioned. 



