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two leagues towards the Lake St. Charles, in 

 which tract many farms are extremely produc- 

 tive in grain of all species. On some of the 

 lands flax is cultivated with great success ; on 

 the River St. Charles the pastures and meadows 

 are so fine as scarcely to be rivalled by any in 

 the province: beyond the lake the country as- 

 sumes a mountainous and barren character, at- 

 fording no land upon which industry could be 

 exerted with any hopes of success in the way 

 of agriculture. On the lower part of the seig- 

 niory the little timber that remains is of inferior 

 dimensions, and confined to small woods and 

 patches here and there ; but in the vicinity of 

 Lake St. Charles and further rearward, a great 

 abundance of the finest sort is produced. The 

 Rivers Jacques Cartier, St. Anne, and Batis- 

 can, cross it in the intervals between the differ- 

 ent ranges of mountains, while the cultivated 

 part is exceedingly well watered by the River 

 and Lake St. Charles, aided by many small 

 streams. The lake aftbrds one of the most 

 exquisitely picturesque scenes in the whole 

 province ; it is a narrow irregular figure, rather 

 more than four miles in length; about midway 

 a projecting point stretches nearly across, and 

 leaves only a narrow strait by which the almost 

 separated waters communicate: situated in a 

 low flat country, it is entirely surrounded by 



