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proceed by the methods of his forefathers, but 

 the other i3 an experimentalist, and varies his 

 operations in whatever way he thinks the nature 

 and quahty of the materials he has to work 

 upon may be most speedily made to produce 

 his only object, gain. The population of this 

 township is at present 1000 souls. Several 

 pot-ash manufactories, and mills of both de- 

 scriptions, have already, in some degree, laid 

 the foundation of commercial speculations that 

 bid fair to obtain a considerable increase ; in 

 the encouragement of these, the navigation by 

 the St. Francis into the St. Lawrence on the 

 one hand, and through Lake Memphremagog 

 and the rivers branching from it into the 

 United States on the other, the main road by 

 the St. Francis towards Three Rivers and Que- 

 bec, with several others leading into the differ* 

 ent townships, will be greatly instrumental. 

 At the forks of the St. Francis, and the foot of 

 the great fall, are Hyat's mills, in a most con- 

 venient situation ; a little below them, in the 

 river, is a very singular high rock, on the pin- 

 nacle of which there is one solitary pine-tree 

 of large dimensions, making together an ap- 

 pearance both extraordinary and uniuqe : the 

 mills are a valuable property, belonging to Gil- 

 bert Hyat, to whom, with several associates^ 



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