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ductive and valuable farms. The timber is 

 various both in kind and quality, but there is 

 good maple and birch, and along the banks of 

 the different rivers some superior pine : the 

 common species are very abundant. The 

 Rivers Ste. Anne and Portneuf, already men- 

 tioned, cross this seigniory, but the principal 

 one by which it is watered is the Jacques Car- 

 tier : to many it may be superfluous to men- 

 tion the origin of its name, which was derived 

 from the navigator who first examined the 

 River St. Lawrence, and secured his vessels at 

 the entrance of this river during the winter of 

 1536. It takes its source from several small 

 lakes in the interior, near the parallel of 48'' 

 north latitude, and about 71° 20' of west lon- 

 gitude. After running a very circuitous course 

 through a mountainous country that is but 

 little known, it reaches the townships of Tewkes- 

 bury and Stoneham, passes through them, and 

 flows on in a south-south-westerly direction, a 

 distance of about forty-six miles, across the 

 seigniories of St. Ignace, St. Gabriel, Faussem- 

 bault, Neuville, Belair, and the fief Jacques 

 Cartier, where it falls into the River St. Law- 

 rence. From the townships its stream displays 

 a character of great wildness, and is both grand 

 and impetuous in its course, hurrying through 

 valleys between the lofty mountains, and fre- 



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