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hemp, flax, or other productions of the country. 

 The timber, of which much still remains, although 

 immense quantities have been felled and carried 

 to market, is of the first rate quality. On the 

 north bank of the Chateauguay there is a good 

 road, leading into the state of New York. 

 Among the holders of large tracts of land in 

 this township are the heifs of the late Alexander 

 Ellice, Esq. who now retain twenty-five thousand 

 nine hundred acres, which that gentleman ac- 

 quired by purchase, and afterwards had secured 

 to him by patent. Adjoining Godmanchester, 

 on the west, is a space reserved for the use of 

 the domicihated Indians of St. Regis, and com- 

 monly known by the name of the Indian Lands : 

 it forms a triangle bounded by Lake St. Francis, 

 Godmanchester, and the line of 45'' ; its side on 

 the lake is about ten miles, and that on the 

 line twelve miles and a half. The land is of a 

 very superior class, and well furnished with fine 

 timber, but much neglected by the proprietors^ 

 as there are no other settlements upon it than 

 a few of their own around the village, which is 

 very well situated, at the western extremity of 

 the tract, close to the St. Lawrence. The boun- 

 dary line runs through the middle of it, and 

 from hence divides the river upwards, in mid- 

 channel. That the village of St. Regis should 

 be thus circumstanced is a subject of regret,. 



