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ham, joins Lotbiniere on the north-east, Liv- 

 rard, or St. Pierre les Becquets, and the town- 

 ship of Blandford on the south-west, and is 

 bounded in the rear by a small piece of waste 

 crown lands, that separates it from the town- 

 ships of Somerset and Stanfold. The seig- 

 niory, in dimensions two leagues square, was 

 granted April Soth, 1674, to Sieur de St. Ours ; 

 the augmentation, two leagues in breadth, by 

 four leagues and a half deep, was granted 

 January 25th, 1752, to Roc de St. Ours, and 

 Sieur Deschaillons : they are now the property 

 of Charles de St. Ours, Esq. In general, the 

 soil of this seigniory is of a favourable quality, 

 being either a good yellow loam, or else a fine 

 black mould ; but notwithstanding these ad- 

 vantages, cultivation has made but an indiffer- 

 ent progress. On the bank of the St. Law- 

 rence there are two ranges of concessions, con- 

 taining together about one hundred and fifty 

 farm lots, of which the majority appear to be 

 under respectable management : their produce 

 of wheat and almost all sorts of grain is com- 

 mensurate thereto, and of a good quality. 

 Both the original grant and the augmentation 

 are thickly clothed with wood of various spe- 

 cies, better calculated for firewood than any 

 other purposes ; and from whence great quan- 

 tities are supplied to the garrison and city of 



