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jected only, and twenty-two parishes. The lands 

 granted " en fief et seigneurie'' are 1,039,549 

 superficial acres, or 1,220,308 superficial French 

 arpents. In the townships 824,679 acres have 

 been granted in free and common soccage. 

 The cultivated part of the seigniories may be 

 taken at a little more than one third ; but the 

 townships fall very short of the same proportion, 

 and the recent date of their grants suflSciently 

 assign the reason of it. 



Maskinongf/ (the seigniory of), situated on 

 the north side of Lake St. Peter s, in the county 

 of St. Maurice, is bounded on the south-west 

 by Berthier, on the north-east by the seigniory 

 of Riviere du Loup, and in the rear by Dusable 

 or Nouvelle York and Carafel : it contains two 

 separate grants ; that of the north-east part, a 

 league and a half in front by the same depth, 

 was made November 3, l672, to Sieur Baptiste 

 Le Gardeur de St. Michel ; and the south-west 

 part, a league in front by a league in depth, on 

 the same date, and to the same person. The 

 soil is rich, fertile in the production of all sorts 

 of grain, and in some places would be excellent 

 for hemp and flax. The land in general is 

 rather flat, and towards the front is so low as^ 

 to be sometimes overflowed in the spring ; but 

 this only serves to enrich the fine meadows and 

 good pasture grounds that border the river. 



