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accommodation of troops during the first Ame- 

 rican war, when it was necessary to have a force 

 stationed at different places above Quebec, to 

 defend the passage of the St. Lawrence. On 

 the east side of La Rivifere de laPointe du Lac 

 stands a good-looking church, parsonage-house, 

 and a cliapel ; not far removed from this spot 

 are Montour's Mills, large, commodious, and 

 well-built; near to them are some extensive 

 store-houses and dwellings; on the opposite 

 side of the road, a little above the mills, stands 

 the proprietor s manor-house, a very handsome 

 buildiug, finely situated, and commanding a 

 fine prospect over a tract of country abounding 

 in picturesque beauties. 



St. Marguerite (the seigniory of), in the 

 county of St. Maurice, is situated in the rear of 

 several small grants made to the late order of 

 Jesuits, Sieur de St. Paul, and others ; it is 

 bounded on the north-east by the River St. 

 Maurice, on the south-west by Tonnancour or 

 Pointe du Lac, and on the north-west by the 

 seigniory of St. Maurice; it is about three 

 quarters of a league in front by a league in 

 depth, and was granted 27th July, l6'91, to 

 Sieur Jacques Dubois de Boguinet. The little 

 fief of Vieux Pont, about a quarter of a mile 

 in front, is within the seigniory of St. Mar- 

 guerite, and extends from the Saint Lawrence 



