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the largest of them is a mile long, and about a 

 quarter of a mile broad. 



Buckingham, on the north bank of the 

 Ottawa, in the county of York, joins Lochaber; 

 four ranges of it have been surveyed, and little 

 more than one quarter granted. Bordering the 

 river the land is low, and from several large 

 bays and ponds that run a great way into it, is 

 frequently overflowed; but when that is not the 

 case, there is some excellent meadow land, and 

 also some that is tolerably good for other pur- 

 poses. In the rear the soil is but indifferent; 

 in places, so uneven and stony as to be fit for 

 no sort of tillage. It is watered by several 

 small streams, descending from the rear into 

 the Ottawa. A few families have settled on 

 convenient spots in front of the township, and 

 ^ pursue their agricultural labours with success, 

 and favourable prospects of improvement. 



Templeton is the next township to Buck- 

 ingham; about one half thereof has been granted 

 to Archibald McMillan and others, his asso- 

 ciates, but as yet very few persons have settled 

 upon it. The land approaching the Ottawa is 

 rather low, but the soil tolerably good for the 

 production of most species of grain and many 

 of the most useful succulents ; the back parts 

 are not much inferior to the front. The timber 

 is mostly beech, maple, basswood, pine, and 



