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canoes and scows are always in readiness on 

 either side for travellers, carriages, &c. In 

 addition to the main road that crosses the seig- 

 niory, others ascend for several miles on each 

 side of the Batiscan, and communicate with the 

 adjacent grants. About six miles up on the 

 east side of this river is the foundery of the 

 same name ; it consists of a furnace or smelting- 

 house, a casting-house, two forges, dwelling- 

 houses, and various other buildings. The 

 manufactures carried on here are similar to 

 those of St. Maurice; some pig and bar iron 

 are also exported, but neither upon so exten- 

 sive a scale as from the other foundery. The 

 establishment is the property of several indivi- 

 duals ; the chief owners were formerly the Hon. 

 T. Dunn, John Craigie, Esq., Mr. Frobisher, 

 and Mr. Coffin ; the first named gentleman has 

 for some time past withdrawn himself from the 

 concern, and one or two of the latter are de- 

 ceased : it is now continued by their heirs and 

 successors. From the expensive nature of these 

 works, that require the continual application of 

 large sums of money to keep them going, the 

 revenue in proportion to the trade is by no 

 means equal to that of St. Maurice. In open- 

 ing a field for ingenuity and industry, as well 

 as causing a competition in supplying articles 

 of internal consumption, they are undoubtedly of 



