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a small group "of other dwellings surrounding 

 them, stand on a pleasant site close to the Point 

 of St. Roch, from whence stretch the extensive 

 shoals, that, by greatly narrowing the deep water 

 channel, form the traverse mentioned in a 

 former part of this work for the difficulty of its 

 navigation. A little westward of the church 

 is the telegraph station No. 8. Many roads 

 branch off in almost every direction through 

 the seigniory, but the one passing close to the 

 river is the main post road : they are kept in 

 good order, as well as the different bridges. 



Ste. Anne, or La Pocadiere (the seig- 

 niory of), in the county of Cornwallis, lies 

 between St. Roch des Annais and the seig- 

 niory of River Quelle, with its front to the St. 

 Lawrence, and bounded in the rear by the un- 

 surveyed township of Ixworth ; one league and 

 a half in breadth by as much in depth ; was 

 granted October 29th, 1672, to Demoiselle de 

 la Combe : it is now the property of Monsr. 

 Schmidt. So great a similarity reigns through 

 several grants hereabouts, that a description of 

 one may almost serve for the whole : the soil 

 in this one is very fertile, and produces grain 

 of all sorts ; most of the concessions are under 

 a good system of agricultural management, 

 and thickly inhabited : the land approaching 

 the mountains is of good quality, but none of 



