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hills of considerable elevation, covered with 

 tliick woods ; these are again greatly over- 

 topped by more distant mountains that rise 

 very abruptly to the northward. The margin 

 presents an appearance at once wild, romantic, 

 and delightful ; the devious course of the low 

 banks forms numerous little bays and head- 

 lands, where the trees to the water's edge com- 

 plete, by the variety of their foliage and grada- 

 tion of size as they rise upon the different slopes^ 

 one of the richest views that Can delight an 

 admirer who prefers a prospect adorned only 

 by the hand of nature to one heightened by 

 the devices of art* This charming panorama 

 is rather more than four leagues from Quebec, 

 and during the spring and summer is frequently 

 visited on account of its arcadian beauty : tlie 

 road leading to it passes all the way by the 

 side of the River St. Charles, arid by its embel- 

 lishments greatly heightens the satisfaction of 

 those who make the excursion, and from whence 

 no one returns without ample gratification. 

 . L'Epinay (fief), in the county of Quebec, 

 joins St. Ignace, is bounded by the River St. 

 Charles in front, and the township of Stonehaui 

 in the rear; eleven arpens in breadth by four 

 leagues in depth ; was granted February 28th, 

 1626, to Louis Hebert. 



D'Orsanville (another fief), on the north- 



