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Riviere du Gouffre; granted December SOth, 

 1682, to Pierre Dupre: it is now the property 

 of Madame Drapeau. This seigniory, on the 

 easterly side of the river, is nearly the counter- 

 part of the opposite settlement in Cote du 

 Beaupr6, possessing almost the same kind of soil, 

 and cultivated in a similar manner. The Capes 

 Corbeau and La Baie, projecting into the St. 

 Lawrence, are of great height, and rise abruptly 

 from the water's edge : they are connected 

 with the chain of mountains that ranges along 

 the Riviere du GoufFre, far into the interior; 

 diverging at first a short distance from it, leav- 

 ing an intermediate tract of good land, but af- 

 terwards drawing quite close upon its bank. 

 The first concession, bordering upon St. Paul's 

 Bay, and coasting the river, shows a range of 

 settlements where agriculture has obtained no 

 small degree of improvement: some trifling 

 degree of amelioration has also obtained in 

 the rear of this range. The Bay of St. Paul 

 is about three miles in depth, and rather more 

 than two miles at its entrance, from the capes 

 on each side ; it receives the waters of Riviere 

 du Gouffre, which is a stream of considerable 

 size, flowing from some lakes in the second 

 range of mountains in the interior. From the 

 capes that form the exterior points of the bay 

 on either side, the ridges of high lands describe 



