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and indeed with less trouble, as nothing more 

 would be required than to establish the same 

 bj proces verbal. At all events some regulation 

 in this respect is necessary, in order that the 

 southern townships, now containing a popula- 

 tion of nearly 20,000, and that is every year 

 acquiring fresh accessions, may no longer be 

 involved in similar inconvenience. The county 

 boundaries from the same cause call for a re- 

 vision. 



THE DISTRICT OF THREE RIVERS 



Lies between those of Montreal and Quebec, 

 is bounded on the south by part of the line of 

 45 degrees of north latitude, and the ridge of 

 mountains stretching to the north-east ; north- 

 ward its limit is indefinite, or it may be pre- 

 sumed to have only the province boundary for 

 its limit in that direction. Its breadth, on the 

 north side of the St. Lawrence, from the seig- 

 niory of Berthier to that of St. Anne, is fifty- 

 two miles and a half ; but on the south side, 

 from Sorel to Deschaillors, no more than fifty 

 miles and a half. It contains the county of St. 

 Maurice, and the greater part of Buckingham, 

 forty seigniories and fiefs, thirty-two whole 

 townships, part of eleven others that are divid- 

 ed by the district lines, thirty-two that are pro- 



