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eastern part, three quarters of a league in 

 front by three leagues in depth, on the 3d No- 

 vember, 167^, to the poor of the said hospital ; 

 and the augmentation to the eastern part, two 

 leagues in depth by three quarters of a league 

 in front, on the 25th April, 171 1> to Louis 

 Hamelin : the whole is now the property of 

 Mr. Moses Hart. Throughout the greater part 

 of these grants the soil is of an indifferent cha- 

 racter, being only a thin layer of poor earth 

 upon a solid bed of stone: here and there a 

 few patches of better quality may be found. 

 A small ridge extends across the seigniory at a 

 short distance from the front, and thence down 

 to the borders of the river the space is princi- 

 pally occupied by very good meadow land. 

 The timber is altogether of the most inferior 

 sort. The principal settlements lie by the main 

 road, passing just beneath the ridge, and upon 

 the River Ste. Anne : taken in the aggregate, 

 the soil and timber on this property are barely 

 above mediocrity, yet it is not without some 

 well cultivated farms upon it; they, however, 

 owe more to the industry of their occupiers 

 than to original fertility for that distinction. 

 Somewhat more than a fourth part of these 

 tracts are under culture. It is very well water- 

 ed by the River Ste. Anne, the Batiscan, and a 

 small river falling into the St. Lawrence ; the 



