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mill and several saw-mills. The best culti- 

 vated and most populous divisions of the seig- 

 niory are Ange Gardien, Chateau Richer, Ste. 

 Anne, St. Joachim, and the settlements about 

 St. Fereole. Between the latter and those of 

 La Petite Riviere there intervenes a barren 

 tract of five leagues in length, that has always 

 proved most seriously inimical to the progress 

 of the settlements about St. Paul's Bay, there 

 not being a single road through it, or other 

 means of communication between the two set- 

 tlements, except by water, and the uncertain 

 one of Le Chemin des Caps, as already men- 

 tioned. This great inconvenience will, most 

 probably, soon be remedied ; for a road has been 

 traced from St. Fereole to the Bay of St. Paul, 

 to pass in the rear of the mountains, pursuant 

 to an act of the provincial parliament, which 

 likewise provides a sum of money to defray the 

 expenses of the work. Ange Gardien is po- 

 pulous, and well settled ; the main road, passing 

 along the eminence almost fronting the river, 

 presents a number of very good houses on each 

 side of it, and which, with those that appear 

 among the concessions upon the rising grounds 

 more in the interior, have a most pleasing effect 

 to the eye. As the county of Northumberland 

 extends from Beauport to the extremity of the 

 province at the River St. John, on the coast of 



