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saw-mills have been erected. The population 

 is 600 souls or thereabouts. 



Dunham, between the seigniory of St. Ar- 

 mand's and Farnham, in the county of Bed- 

 ford, touches upon Sutton and Brome to the 

 eastward, and Stanbridge to the Avestward. 

 The situation and quality of the land through- 

 out renders it a valuable tract ; it has plenty of 

 timber, such as maple, beech, birch, elm, but- 

 ternut, iron-wood, white and black ash ; also 

 good oak and pine. The upper lands are rather 

 hilly, having many horizontal seams of rock 

 lying a little below the surface; but on the 

 more level parts the soil is found to be generally 

 a rich black mould, with here and there a 

 mixture of sand. It yields all sorts of grain in 

 abundance ; in many places it is peculiarly fit 

 for the growth of flax, and in some others for 

 hemp. Swamps, but not very extensive ones 

 or numerous, are met with, covered generally 

 with cedar and tammarack, but they might be 

 drained without much trouble, and cleared to 

 great advantage. The township is watered by 

 several branches of the Yamaska and the Pike 

 River, and by two beautiful little lakes, the 

 largest spreading over about 600 acres in the 

 sixth range. There are a greater number of 

 roads, and mostly kept in good repa,ir, within 



