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has been found relative to this grant, conse- 

 quently its original date and precise dimen- 

 sions are not known. Les Dames Religieuses 

 of the General Hospital of Quebec, to whom 

 the property belongs, in performing fealty and 

 homage on the IQth March, 1781, produced as 

 their title an act of adjudication, dated Septem- 

 ber 22, 1733; but which was still indecisive of 

 its dimensions, no notice whatever being taken 

 of the extent. By the regulation of the parishes 

 of the province, it is designated as containing 

 two leagues and a half in breadth, by one and a 

 half in depth. With a surface varied and un- 

 even, this seigniory possesses a rich and fertile 

 soil, which on the large swells and high lands is 

 a lightish loam, but in the hollows and valleys 

 lying between them is generally a good black 

 mould ; the situation for all works appertaining 

 to agriculture is so favourable, that full three- 

 fourths of the whole is under tillage ; the farms^ 

 and indeed the major part of the concessions 

 appear to great advantage, and display many 

 favourable specimens of careful husbandry. In 

 proportion to the increase of cultivation, the 

 quantity of timber has greatly diminished, and 

 at present but little of a superior quality is 

 standing : nor are the common kinds in much 

 greater abundance. It is watered by the Ri- 

 viere du Cap Rouge, which has its source 



