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of St. GabrieLand St. Igiiace, and from its 

 remoteness entirely surrounded on the other 

 sides by waste crown lands ; two leagues in 

 breadth by as many in depth; was granted 

 June lOth, 1698, to Sieur Rene Louis Hubert. 

 Beino; so far northward of all the cultivated 

 lands, the quality or worth of this seigniory is 

 wholly unknown; even the timber upon it 

 seems never to have been deemed an object 

 deserving enquiry. 



Notre Dame des Anges (the seigniory 

 of), in the county of Quebec, is situated be- 

 tween D'Orsanville and Beauport, bounded in 

 front by the Rivers St. Charles and St. Law- 

 rence, and in the rear by the township of 

 Stoneham ; one league broad and four leagues 

 deep; was granted 10th March, 16^6, to the 

 Order of Jesuits, and like their other properties, 

 now reverted to the crown. Within this seip- 

 niory the greater part of the land is of a supe- 

 rior quality, and equally pre-eminent for its fer- 

 tihty : about the front it is a good rich earth 

 mixed with clay or sand ; beyond this sort, and 

 more to the interior, there is a fine black mould, 

 much drier and more friable than the former; 

 in the rear a good loam prevails ; the surface is 

 uneven, and from a fine flat near the river, 

 rises into ridges by easy gradations to the 

 back boundary ; and, thereabouts, becomes 



