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ing the land is in many places very rocky and 

 uneven : several spots on the sides of the hills, 

 though difficult of access from their elevated 

 and precipitous situation, are tilled by manual 

 labour, and are extremely fertile in grain of 

 most sorts. On this tract the houses of the 

 inhabitants are nearly all of stone, very well 

 built and vi^hitewashed on the outside, which 

 greatly adds to the gaiety of the general prospect 

 of the settlement, as well as to the neatness of 

 their individual appearance. Several small 

 streams descend from the mountains, and after 

 serpentizing through the valley fall into the 

 Riviere du GoufFre, turning in their way several 

 saw and grist-mills. The main road passes at 

 the foot of the bounding heights to the extre- 

 mity of the cultivated land in Cote St. Urbain, 

 and on each side presents many neat and in- 

 teresting farms and settlements, in a very im- 

 proved state. The church of St. Pierre is si- 

 tuated on the bank of the Riviere du GoufFre, 

 near its discharge into St. Paul's Bay. 



Le Gouefre (the seigniory of), in the 

 county of Northumberland, is bounded on the 

 westward by the Riviere du Gouffre, on the 

 eastward by the seigniory of Les Eboulemens, 

 and in the rear by waste crown lands; it 

 extends about half a league on the River St. 

 Lawrence by four leagues in depth, along the 



