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The timber has been very much thinned in this 

 seigniory, but it is very well watered by the 

 large river Maskinonge that winds through the 

 centre of it, and is navigable for boats and 

 canoes for several miles up, and by some small 

 streams. About two-thirds of it is in cultiva- 

 tion. The best settlements are on the borders of 

 Chenail du Nord, on both sides of the road 

 leading to Quebec, and on the east bank of 

 the Maskinonge, over which there is a bridge. 

 There is no village in the seigniory, but it has 

 a church and parsonage-house, one grist-mill 

 and one saw-mill. At the entrance of the Mas- 

 quinonge there are two or three large islands, 

 forming different channels into it ; they are all 

 flat and low, but covered with various sorts of 

 inferior wood. Timber from Carufel, &c. and 

 the townships in its rear, are brought down it 

 into the St. Lawrence. 



Dusable' or NouvELLE York (the seig- 

 niory of), in the county of St. Maurice, is si- 

 tuated in the rear of Maskinonge, between 

 Berthier and Carufel, one league in front by 

 three in depth ; was granted, August 15, 1739, 

 to Adrien Dandonneau Dusable, and is now the 

 property of the Honourable Ross Cuthbert. A 

 small ridge of rising ground crosses this grant a 

 little to the northward of the road to Quebec, 

 which seems to separate the fertile from the 



