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of a better quality than that in the pre^ 

 ceding one, with less of a sandy descrip- 

 tion : the front is so low as to be overflowed in 

 the spring by Lake St. Peter, and consists of 

 very fine meadow and good pasturage: pro- 

 ceeding to the rear the ground rises gradually; 

 in this direction there are some patches of fair 

 arable land. The timber is not of the best 

 kinds, particularly in front, although it im- 

 proves further back. About one third of the 

 seigniory is cultivated; the most improved set- 

 tlements are contiguous to the main road on 

 each side of it, where some of the lots and 

 farms bespeak an attention to husbandry that 

 shews them in a very favourable light. 



PiERREViLLE (the seiguiory of), in the county 

 of Buckingham, is situated in the rear of St. 

 Franfois, bounded on its south and south-west 

 sides by the seigniory of De Guir, and on the 

 north and north-east by waste lands of the 

 crown, a league and a half in front by a league 

 in depth; it was granted August 3, 1683, to 

 Sieur Laurent Phillippe, and is now the pro- 

 perty of the Baroness de Longeuil. A middling 

 good soil is the general characteristic of the 

 whole of this grant; in some parts it lies low, 

 but not so as to occasion swamps. The best 

 land is found close on each side of the St. 

 Francis, where are the principal settlements 



