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on the north-west, Ascott, Eaton, and West- 

 bury on the south-east^ and Dudswell on the 

 north-east. This tract is likewise in the same 

 neglected state as Windsor, most probably 

 from being granted in the same manner. The 

 land is of first rate quality, and fit for all the 

 purposes of agriculture : in general, beech, bass- 

 wood, ironwood, and maple, are the most pre- 

 valent kinds of timber. A few swamps occur, 

 but neither extensive nor deep ; in fact, they 

 are scarcely more than common wet-lands, and 

 require only careful ditching to become very 

 good meadows, of which there are already, in 

 different parts, many large extents of the most 

 luxuriant kind. It is uncommonly well watered 

 by several rivers and streams, that, after wind- 

 ing in all directions, fall into the St. Francis ; 

 in the fourteenth range there is a small lake. 

 On the banks of some of the minor rivulets 

 many good patches for the growth of hemp can 

 be found, and on the parts that lie a little 

 higher is a fine soil for the culture of flax. 

 The population hardly merits an estimate. 



AscoTT, in the county of Buckingham, is 

 advantageously situated at the forks of the 

 River St. Francis, bounded on the north by 

 Stoke, on the south by Hatley and Compton, 

 on the east by Eaton, and on the west by part 

 of the branch of the St. Francis that connects 



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