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a soil nearly similar to the front part of the 

 seigniory of Jacques Cartier, Belair cannot vie 

 with that property in fertility ; but it is nearly 

 all settled, and can show some neat, well-ma- 

 naged farms. The Jacques Cartier river crosses 

 it diagonally, and it is otherwise watered by 

 the Riviere aux Pommes, a pretty winding 

 stream that flows into the former. The timber 

 has been nearly all cleared off, and what little 

 does remain is very inferior both in kind and 

 value. Several roads cross this grant, having 

 one intersecting them at right angles, that 

 runs from the banks of the St. Lawrence up to 

 the Jacques Cartier. The augmentation is gene- 

 rally mountainous, but the land is not of a bad 

 quality. It is only partially cultivated near 

 where it joins the seigniory : it is tolerably 

 well timbered with beech, ash, maple, pine, 

 and birch, and watered by the River Portneuf 

 and some of its branches. The road from 

 Jacques Cartier bridge crosses it, on each side 

 of which there are a few neat settlements. 



D'AuTEUiL (the seigniory of), in the county 

 of Hants, is immediately in the rear of the 

 augmentation to Belair, bounded on the north- 

 east by Bourglouis, on the south-west by 

 Jacques Cartier seigniory, and on the north- 

 west by waste crown lands ; half a league in 

 breadth by four and a half leagues in depth ; 



