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From Rue des Forges there is a road leading 

 to the foundery of St. Maurice. On the eastern 

 side of the town are several small fiefs and se- 

 parate lots of ground belonging to different 

 proprietors, most of them in a good state of 

 cultivation. 



St. Maurice (the seigniory of), in the 

 county of Saint Maurice, lies on the west side 

 of River St. Maurice, a league in breadth by a 

 league and a half in depth : the original grant 

 was two leagues in depth, but owing to the 

 seigniory of Pointe du Lac, by which it is 

 bounded on the south-west, being of a prior 

 date, so great an extent could not be taken. 

 St. Maurice was reunited to the king's domain 

 on the 6th April, 1740, and on the 13th of the 

 same month granted to the companj^ of the 

 forges, with an additional piece of land three 

 leagues in depth by two in breadth, called fief 

 St. Etienne ; on the north-west of St. Etienne 

 is another tract of the same dimensions, that 

 has lately been annexed to the above grants, as 

 part of the lands belonging to the forges. The 

 whole is the property of the crown, but let on 

 lease for twenty-one years, together with the 

 forges, &c. to Messrs. Munro and Bell, for the 

 sum of 500/. per annum only. The soil in St. 

 Maurice (seigniory) is light and sandy, generally 

 upon a bottom of clay or good marl ; the sur- 



