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broad and two deep : no record of this grant 

 has been found, even the date of the concession 

 is unknown. 



Tito IS Pistoles (the seigniory of), in the 

 county of Cornwallis, is bounded by Dartigny 

 on the south-west, on the north-east by Richard 

 Rioux, and in the rear by waste lands ; two 

 leagues in breadth by two in depth ; granted 

 January 6th, I6875 to Sieur de Vitre. 



Richard Rioux, now a part of Trois Pis- 

 toles, is an extensive grant, fronting the St. 

 Lawrence, and nearly encompassed on the 

 other sides by waste lands ; it is six leagues in 

 length by four in breadth ; granted April 6th, 

 1751, to Sieur Nicholas Rioux. From the seig- 

 niory of Riviere du Loup, along the banks of the 

 St. Lawrence eastward, agriculture has kept 

 but a very unequal pace with the other parts of 

 the district, and the land under cultivation is 

 insignificant in quantity ; in many places it is 

 very good, but situation and climate are both 

 unfavourable to tillage : little therefore remains 

 to be said of the few remaining settlements in 

 the lower part of the district of Quebec. The 

 four seigniories just recited are nearly through- 

 out their whole extent mountainous and rugged; 

 the great north-easterly ridge ranges so close to 

 the river as to leave only a narrow slip between 

 it and the shore. This space possesses a mo^; 



