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land has also been made for them by the Ame- 

 rican government on that side of the Une. 



HiNCHiNBRooK is in the county of Hunt- 

 ingdon, on the boundary hne ; joining the 

 seigniory of Beauharnois on the north-east, and 

 separated from Godmanchester by the River 

 Chateauguay. Nearly the whole of this town- 

 ship is granted. From the province line north- 

 ward there are three full ranges, but the re- 

 mainder of it is more irregularly divided and 

 appropriated to crown and clergy reservations, 

 in large portions, or blocks, as they are techni- 

 cally termed. The land is somewhat uneven, 

 but the soil is excellent, excepting only a very 

 few swampy tracts, that are covered with cedar, 

 spruce fir, and hemlock trees. The large knolls, 

 or rising grounds, are thickly clothed with 

 good timber, as beech, maple, birch, pine, oak, 

 butternut, and basswood. Towards the Cha- 

 teauguay, in some places, it subsides into valleys 

 and gentle slopes, where there are large breadths 

 of fine meadows, well watered by several 

 branches of that river. At present the township 

 contains but few inhabitants, some of them set- 

 tled on thriving farms by the river side, and 

 others in very eligible situations along the fron- 

 tier, in which direction there are several roads 

 passing into the state of New York. An im- 

 mense stock of fine timber still remains in this 



