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beech, maple, birch, pine, hickory, and bass- 

 wood, are very abundant, as also the inferior 

 species of cedar, sprucefir, hemlock, &c. 

 From the north-eastern extremity of the seig- 

 niory of Beauport to Cape Tourmente, a dis- 

 stance of rather more than twenty-two miles, 

 there is a strip of land ranging in breadth from 

 half a mile to a mile, and bounded to the 

 northward by an eminence of considerable ele- 

 vation : the part of this space not under tillage 

 is very excellent meadow land ; the outer mar- 

 gin of the whole of it, at low water, is a con- 

 tinued marsh of not much less than a mile in 

 width, on which, during the spring and autumn, 

 the sportsman is sure to meet with excellent 

 game, as it is visited by wild-ducks, snipes, and 

 plover, in amazing quantities. Beyond the 

 boundary of this level the ground continues to 

 rise by gradations, until it reaches the lofty 

 mountains in the rear. Cape Tourmente is a 

 bold bluff point, rising more than one thousand 

 eight hundred feet above the river, forming a 

 very prominent object in the view of the north 

 shore, either from the eastward or the west- 

 ward. From hence to Cape Maillard, another 

 bold promontory about five leagues down the 

 river, there is a continuation of capes and pro- 

 jecting points, varying greatly in their size and 

 height, but all of them rising abruptly from the 



