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able, being navigable for small boats and canoes 

 to a short distance only upwards from its mouth. 

 It takes its rise in the interior, about the skirts 

 of the north-west ridge of mountains, and flows 

 through Lake St. Thomas, from whence the 

 magnitude of its stream is greatly increased; 

 the banks on each side are high, and covered 

 with large groups of fine majestic trees ; some 

 of the small islands in it are thickly clothed 

 with large pine-trees. In the interior the stream 

 is passable for some of the Indian canoes, but 

 not without many difficulties and much labour, 

 caused by the numerous falls and rapids, that 

 occasion very long portages ; however, a party 

 or two of the Indian hunters persevere through 

 this toilsome route, and descend every season to 

 Three Rivers with a few furs. 



Champlatn (the seigniory of and its aug- 

 mentation), in the county of St. Maurice, on the 

 north side of the River St. Lawrence, lies between 

 Cap de la Magdelaine (seigniory) and Batiscan, 

 a league and a half in front by a league in depth ; 

 was granted Sept. 22, 1664, to Etienne Pezard, 

 Sieur de la Touche ; the augmentation, of the 

 same breadth as the seigniory, and three leagues 

 deep, is bounded in the rear by the township of 

 Radnor, and waste crown lands ; it w^as granted 

 April 28th, 1697, to Madame de la Touche. In 

 this seigniory the soil is favourable to the growth 



