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tern of husbandry, rich meadows, good gar- 

 dens and orchards; but the produce of the 

 latter is not of a very superior kind. The farm 

 and other houses are neat and substantially 

 built. In the remaining concessions, the state 

 of agriculture is not so far advanced; on the 

 Chaudiere, the best lands lie at some distance 

 from the banks ; nearly the same is the case 

 with those on the Echemin, the margins of 

 both being generally flat rock, with only a 

 shallow covering of soil upon them. Almost 

 €very one of the ranges are intersected by 

 Toads: the main ones, or those on the bank 

 of the St. Lawrence, the one leading from 

 Pointe Levi Mills to St. Henri, and thence 

 to the River Chaudiere, the route St. Gilles 

 from St. Nicholas, along the south-west bank 

 of the Beaurivage, and thence communicating 

 with Craig's Road, are very good, and main- 

 tained in excellent repair. Nearly opposite 

 to Quebec, and on a little river which there 

 discharges itself into the St. Lawrence, are 

 the extensive and valuable premises called the 

 Pointe Levi Mills, and further westward, at the 

 mouth of the Echemin, the no less important 

 establishment called the Echemin Mills, from 

 both of which large exportations of flour annu- 

 ally take place. From Pointe des Peres to the 

 Chaudiere River, the beach is almost wholly 



