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maple? birch, fir, spruce, and cedar. It is 

 watered by the River Arnold, and some other 

 streams falling into the lake; the former de- 

 rives its name from the American General 

 Arnold, who in the year 1775 passed part of 

 his troops down it, when conducting his army 

 through an almost unknown cpuntry to besiege 

 Quebec. No part of this township is settled, 

 although it abounds with numerous excellent 

 situations, where the land is? fit for every spe- 

 cies of agriculture. 



Ham, in the county of Buckingham, lying 

 bet ween Wotton and Wolfe&town, joins Ting wick 

 and Chester on the north-west, and Weedon on 

 the south-east. The complete outline of this 

 township has been run, and one half of it 

 granted among several individuals. The land 

 is here of a quality that might be brought into 

 cultivation with great advantage, and would 

 produce wheat or any other species of grain 

 natural to the country : many parts of it are fit 

 for the growth of flax and hemp. The surface 

 is diversified by many large swells of inconsi- 

 derable elevation, covered with the kinds of 

 wood that denote them to be of a fine rich soil : 

 in some few places in the valleys it is a little 

 swampy. The timber is maple, beech, bass- 

 wood, birch, hemlock, and cedar. It is watered 

 by part of the River jNicolet^-vyhich here has iu 



