land is rather wet, but not unfit for tillage. It 

 produces some of the best species of hard, black 

 woods. Branches of the Yamaska and several 

 other streams water these townships. Only a 

 very few persons are settled in either. 



Acton is partly in the counties of Richelieu 

 and Buckingham, stretching along Roxton and 

 Ely on the south, bounded by Upton on the 

 west, and by Grantham, Wickham, and Dur- 

 ham on the north and north-east. About one- 

 half of it has been surveyed and granted, but 

 no part thereof is settled upon. The land is 

 level, and lying rather low, is overspread with 

 several swamps, that are covered with spruce 

 fir, white pine, cedar, &c. ; the drier tracts are 

 timbered with ash, beech, maple, and birch. It 

 is watered by two large branches of the Ya- 

 maska. 



Upton, in the counties of Richelieu and 

 Buckingham, is of an irregular figure, extend- 

 ing along the boundaries of the seigniories of 

 De Ramzay and De Guir, to the river St. 

 Francis ; it is bounded on the south-east by 

 Acton and Grantham, and abuts upon Milton 

 on the south. The land is here flat and low, 

 with many extensive swamps spreading over it, 

 covered with tammarack, alder, and cedar. By 

 the side of the St. Francis, and other streams 

 that intersect it, there are some few spots of 



