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bass wood 5 spruce fir, hemlock and cedar. Be- 

 sides having the navigable river for one of the 

 boundaries, it is watered by the River David, 

 that winds a very mazy course through it, 

 and turns one grist-mill. On each side of 

 this river there is a road, and one that coasts 

 the Yamaska. The church of this seigniory 

 has no resident CurS^ but the duties of it are 

 performed by the minister of St. Michael de 

 Yamaska. 



Baie St. Antoine or Lefebvre (the 

 seigniory of) is on the south side of the St. 

 Lawrence, in the county of Buckingham ; bound- 

 ed on the south-west by Lussaudiere, on the 

 north-east by Nicolet, and in the rear by Cour- 

 val; two leagues in front and the same in 

 depth; granted September 4th, 1683, to Sieur 

 Lefebvre, and is now the property of Louis 

 Guoin, Esq. This is in all respects a very 

 productive tract of ground: in the front the 

 Longue Pointe, Pointe aux Pois, and Pointe ^ 

 la Garenne, all stretching boldly into the St. 

 Lawrence, form the extremities of two laro:e 

 bays; to the east of Pointe a la Garenne is the 

 Baie de Febvre, also trenching deeply upon the 

 seigniory ; forsome distance on the margin of these 

 bays is a marsh that in the summer affords ex- 

 cellent pasture, singularly intersected in all di- 

 rections by numerous small and clear rivulets; 



