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others, emigrants from Scotland, but very little 

 of it is at present under culture. 



LocHABER, on the north side of the Ottawa 

 River, between the seigniory of La Petite Na- 

 tion and the township of Buckingham, in the 

 county of York, has been partly surveyed ; 

 thirteen thousand two hundred and sixty-one 

 acres were granted in the year 1807, to Archi- 

 bald M' Millan and others, emigrants from 

 Scotland ; of this portion very little has been 

 yet cultivated. Along the front, the river forms 

 several deep bays, in which direction the land 

 is so low, that it is frequently overflowed; but if 

 the settlements should become more numerous, 

 embankments might be raised to repress the in- 

 cursion of the waters ; this part would then 

 become good meadow, and a short distance 

 towards the interior, much of it would be good 

 arable. Proceeding to the rear, the land is 

 broken and rugged up to the ridge of moun- 

 tains, beyond which there is nothing at all 

 improvable, at least in their vicinity. Much of 

 the timber within this tract, both oak and pine, 

 is fit for naval purposes. Several rivers and 

 streams wind through the township ; neither of 

 the former are navigable for boats, though timber 

 may be floated down them to the Ottawa, which 

 here expands greatly in breadth, and has several 

 islands in it that are all well covered with wood ; 



