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of which concerns he gave employment for 

 some years to several hundred persons; but 

 they were found to have been undertaken upon 

 too great a scale for the consumption of the 

 province at that period. Mr. Young^s abilities 

 were of a superior class, and having attracted 

 the notice of Lord Dorchester when Governor- 

 General, procured for him the nomination to a 

 seat in the executive council, wherein, as well 

 as in the provincial government, of which for 

 three or four sessions he was a distinguished 

 member, his talents were always exerted in 

 favour of measures calculated for the benefit 

 and interest of the province. The mill is both, 

 extensive and complete, in a building three 

 stories high ; the water for working it is received 

 from the Beauport into a large reservoir or 

 dam above the road, from whence it is con- 

 veyed to the mill by an aqueduct. On an 

 eminence to the north-eastward are two hand- 

 some stone dwelling-houses with gardens and 

 summer-houses, surrounded by a wall; from 

 their singularly beautiful situation, and the 

 rich prospect they command over the basin of 

 Quebec and surrounding distant objects, they 

 obtain much notice : the Honourable H. W. 

 Ryland is proprietor of both. The Falls of the 

 Montmorenci present the most majestic spec- 

 tacle of the neighbourhood, and indeed one of 



