the settlements in front and on the banks of the 

 river are in good order, and very flourishing ; the 

 houses and farm buildings, well constructed, be- 

 speak their proprietors to be very industrious 

 and in easy circumstances. On the east side of 

 the main or Quebec road, that here resumes it^ 

 course close to the River St. Lawrence, are the 

 church and parsonage-house of Machiche, with 

 a cluster of houses, forming a small neat village 

 around them. The interior is traversed by many 

 roads leading to the seigniories in the rear, as 

 well as those on each side. On the different 

 streams there are some good mills of both de- 

 scriptions. 



Gatineau (fief and augmentation), in the 

 county of St. Maurice, joins Yamachiche ; it is 

 three quarters of a league in front by a league 

 and a half in depth; was granted Nov. 3, 16*72, 

 to Sieur Boucher, fils ; the augmentation, of the 

 same breadth as the fief, and four leagues deep, 

 w^as granted Oct. 3, 1750, to Demoiselle Marie 

 Josephe Gatineau Duplessis. The land in this 

 fief is of rather a lighter soil than the adjoining 

 grants, equally fertile, and subject to nearly the 

 same mode of culture. It is watered by the 

 two rivers Machiche, whose banks for a consi- 

 derable distance upwards display some good 

 and thriving settlements, connected by many 

 good roads, beside the public one that crosses 

 them. 



