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tained. No part of the grant is appropriated 

 to agriculture. The timber is in general very 

 good, and also abundant, consisting of the best 

 species that are found upon a dry good soil, 

 as maple, beech, ash, birch, and pine. The 

 lower portion of the seigniory is watered by the 

 River Ste. Anne, which runs across it, but in 

 the other parts there are only a few small streams 

 that break from the sides of the mountains. 



Jacques Cartier (the seigniory of) is in 

 the county of Hants, having its front on the 

 River St. Lawrence, bounded on the south-west 

 by the barony of Portneuf, by Belair and its 

 augmentation on the north-east, and in the rear 

 by waste crown lands ; half a league in breadth 

 by five leagues in depth ; granted 29th March, 

 1659, to Dame Gaguier, widow of Jean Clement 

 de Wauls, Chevalier and Seigneur de Monceaux. 

 It is now the property of Messrs. de Lery, and 

 Mr. Alsop. Although the surface is very irre- 

 gular and broken, the land in general is of a 

 moderately good quality ; in some places the 

 soil is light and sandy, in others a layer of black 

 vegetable mould upon a stratum of lime-stone, 

 and to the rear, where it becomes rather moun- 

 tainous, a good light loam ; each of these dif- 

 ferent kinds is sufficiently fertile, and several 

 ranges of concessions are in an excellent state 

 of cultivation, having among them many pro- 



