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face is a continual alternation of gradual rise and 

 fall ; in the low parts there are a few swamps, 

 with a good deal of hemlock and cedar upon 

 them ; the acclivities are mostly clothed with 

 a general mixture of timber trees, but the 

 chief sort is pine of a middhng growth : a very 

 small part only of this grant is cultivated. A 

 fine road from Three Rivers crosses it, leading 

 mostly through the woods to the foundery. The 

 fief St. Etienne is but little cultivated, though 

 of a better soil, having a superior mixture of 

 marl, and in many places a rich black vegeta- 

 ble earth ; the ground is irregular, as in St, 

 ' Maurice, but rising into stronger ridges on the 

 north-west. The fief has several divisions called 

 Cotes Rouge, de Grand Pont, Croche, Turcotte, 

 de 14 Arpens, and St. Jean. The upper lands 

 are well covered with maple, birch, beech, and 

 ash, but on the low grounds, that are wet in 

 some places, there are only the usual inferior 

 species, but these in great abundance. In this 

 grant there are several pineries, which produce 

 trees of a superior growth, particularly the one 

 a little below and on Pigeon Island. Iron ore, 

 that at one time was found plentifully in seve- 

 ral parts of this fief, is now only met with in the 

 rear. Quarries of lime-stone, a good grey stone, 

 and some other hard species fit for building, are 

 opened on the banks of the St. Maurice, near 



