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being under hand. The most flourishing set- 

 tlements are near the St. Lawrence, and on 

 each side of the River Boyer. The timber is 

 various, but that of an inferior kind is most 

 prevalent. Both fiefs are well watered by the 

 River Boyer, and some inferior runs of water. 

 The former turns a grist-mill in La Martiniere. 



ViNCENNEs (the seigniory of), in the county 

 of Hertford, has Mont-a-Peine on the south- 

 west, Beaumont on the north-east, the St. 

 Lawrence in front, and Livaudiere in the rear, 

 seventy arpens in front, by one league in 

 depth; was granted November 3d, 1672, to 

 Sieur Bissot. Fereol Roy, Esq., is the present 

 proprietor. The land in this grant lies rather 

 high towards the river, and is, on the most 

 elevated parts, of a lightish sandy earth; in 

 other places a good dark mould, couched upon 

 a substratum of rock, is prevalent. The greatest 

 portion of the grant is under a very respectable 

 state of culture, and produces fine crops of 

 grain, &c. The timber has been greatly reduced, 

 and what now remains is but of indifferent 

 quality. Several small streams falling into the 

 St. Lawrence provide rather a scanty irriga- 

 tion ; one of them works a grist-mill seated in 

 a cove under the lofty bank of the river. There 

 are many good farm-houses and other dwellings 



