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pair : the one along the front is called the post 

 road ; another passing in the rear to Jacques 

 Cartier bridge, is denominated the stage road ; 

 on each side of the Riviere du Cap Rouge 

 a road leads to the seigniory of Pointe aux 

 Trembles, with several intermediary ones con- 

 necting the principals : by the sides of each of 

 them are many fine settlements, the houses 

 well built, and the farms showing every appear- 

 ance of comfort and even affluence. The church, 

 seated on a point projecting into the St. Law- 

 rence, a grist and a saw-mill upon a little branch 

 of Riviere du Cap Rouge, between two lofty 

 banks just where it discharges into the former, 

 compose a pleasing point of view either from 

 the Great River or the eminence just above the 

 mills. An extensive shoal, or rather reef of rocks, 

 bounds the whole front of the seigniory : the 

 Islets Donbour lie upon this reef, opposite the 

 south-west boundary. 



GuiLLAUME BoNHOMME (the sciguiory 

 of), is situated in the rear of Desmaure, bound- 

 ed on the south-west by Pointe aux Trembles^ 

 on the north-east by Faussembault, and on the 

 north-west by the River Jacques Cartier ; one 

 league in breadth by two in depth ; was grant- 

 ed November 24th, 1682, to Guillaume Bon- 

 homme. This tract is uneven and mountain- 

 ous ; near Desmaure, which is the lowest and 



