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sort common to the country. The timber is 

 generally of a superior class. Several branches 

 of the River David water it, and along them 

 are dispersed a few settlers who have their 

 farms in a forward state of cultivation : were a 

 critical revision of the boundaries to take place, 

 some of these tenants now holding from the 

 seignior of De Guir would prove to be lo- 

 cated within the township of Upton. 



BouPvGMARiE East (the seigniory of) is an 

 instance in support of the observations made 

 some pages back relating to the inconvenience 

 of the present district and county boundaries, as 

 it lies within the districts of Montreal and Three 

 Rivers, and in the counties of Richelieu and 

 Buckingham ; it is situated in the rear of the seig- 

 niory of Yamaska, bounded on the west by the 

 river Yamaska, on the south by St. Charles, and 

 on the east by De Guir; fifty arpents in front 

 by nearl}'- two leagues in depth ; it was granted 

 on the 1st of August, 1708, to Marie Eezeret, 

 and is now the property of Mrs. Barrow. This 

 tract is what the Canadian farmers term very 

 good land; in fact it is of rather a superior 

 quality, and such as if moderately well ma- 

 naged would yield abundant crops of grain; 

 at present about a third part of it is under cul- 

 tivation. A little good timber is found upon 

 it, with abundance of the inferior sorts, such as 



