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broken, rough, and mountainous. Of the whole 

 superficies, about two-thirds are in the best 

 state of cultivation, and exceedingly well in- 

 habited. The flat space near the river is called 

 La Canardiere, and is wholly employed as 

 meadows and pasture; the former produce 

 abundant crops of hay of superior quality. 

 The arable lands are very fruitful in grain of 

 all kinds, besides which there is a considerable 

 quantity laid out as garden ground, where ve- 

 getables of every description and great excel- 

 lence are raised for the supply of the capital. 

 The most cultivated parts are sparingly tim- 

 bered, presenting only occasionally reserves of 

 wood, where the trees are of inferior dimension 

 and of little estimation, but they embellish the^ 

 country agreeably enough ; in the rear wood is 

 abundant, and the land is conceded to the in-? 

 habitants in small portions for the purposes of 

 fuel and other domestic uses, of which, exclu- 

 sive of their own consumption, they continu- 

 ally supply large quantities for the use of Que- 

 bec. The beach of the St. Lawrence, in front 

 of the seigniory, is occupied as timber ground, 

 and furnished with extensive booms and every^ 

 necessary means of securing the timben The 

 village of Charlebourg is pleasantly situated 

 on a rising ground of considerable eminence, 

 about Si league to the northward of Quebec, 



