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the main road there are two that branch off to tlie 

 back concessions, and which continue as far to 

 the interior as any settlements have been made; 

 at different distances others take a transverse 

 direction towards the adjacent seigniories on 

 each side. From Cap Sante the large shoal 

 called Batture du Cap SantS stretches almost 

 down to the entrance of Jacques Cartier River : 

 it is thickly beset with rocks that are uncovered 

 at low water. 



Perth uis (the seigniory of), in the county 

 of Hants, is situated immediately in the rear 

 of the barony of Portneuf ; partly bounded on 

 the south-west by the lands forming the pro- 

 jected township of Alton, and partly on the 

 north-east by the seigniory of Jacques Cartier ; 

 its other limits are closed upon by waste crown 

 lands ; one league and a half in breadth, by 

 nine leagues in depth ; was granted October 

 11, 1753, to Sieur Perthuis. From the boun- 

 dary of Portneuf, the land rises in a broken 

 and irregular series of heights towards the rear, 

 where it falls in with the north-westerly ridge 

 of mountains : the soil, for a league or two to 

 the interior, is a hght loam or clay, sometimes 

 covered with a thick layer of fine black mould ; 

 these spots, if brought under cultivation, would, 

 no doubt, prove very productive : of the qua- 

 lity further back nothing has yet been ascer- 



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