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sandy earth lying upon a reddish clay about 

 the front, but further to the rear is found a 

 mixture of yellow loam and black mould ; 

 altogether it is very productive in grain of all 

 kinds, and most other articles of general growth. 

 In Ste. Marie the quantity of land under culti- 

 vation is nearly two-thirds of the grant, and in 

 Ste. Anne it amounts to nearly 300 lots or farms, 

 somewhat irregularly dispersed along each branch 

 of the River St. Anne, and at the descent of a 

 small ridge that stretches across the seigniory 

 a short distance from its front. Of the aug- 

 mentations to Ste. Anne but very little is culti- 

 vated ; it is almost wholly woodland, producing 

 timber of all species, and some of excellent 

 growth and great value : the quality of the 

 land, as indicated by the various kinds of wood 

 growing upon it, is very good. Both grants 

 are watered by the Rivers Batiscan and St. 

 Anne, with a few other streams, not of much 

 consequence ; the two rivers are large, but 

 scarcely at all navigable ; the former is about 

 350 and the latter 400 yards wide ; they run 

 nearly parallel to each other, about seven miles 

 apart, and in a direction almost opposite to the 

 other large streams, as they take a north-east- 

 erly course for about 70 miles, until they come 

 to the rear of the city of Quebec, at about 30 

 miles distant in the township of Stoneham, 



