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a circuit before they close upon the river: 

 their lofty and craggy summits form a grand 

 amphitheatric back ground to the picturesque 

 and highly romantic situation, generally known 

 as the St. Paul's Bay Settlement. 



Les Eboulemens (the seigniory of), in the 

 county of Northumberland, fronting the St. 

 Lawrence, lies between the seigniories of Le 

 GoufFre and Murray Bay, bounded in the rear 

 by waste crown lands ; three leagues in breadth 

 by two in depth. No record of this grant has 

 been preserved, but it appears from an act of 

 fealty and homage performed April 5d, 1723, 

 by Pierre Tremblay, then proprietor, that he 

 produced a concession of the land in question 

 made to Pierre Lessard, but the date thereof 

 was not quoted : it is now the property of M. 

 de Sales La Terriere. The face of this seig- 

 niory is excessively mountainous ; but the soil 

 is not inferior to that about St. Paul's Bay, and 

 is in many parts equally productive. The 

 shore of the St. Lawrence is very lofty, espe- 

 cially about Cap aux Oies; but the edges of 

 the bays, between the different projecting 

 points, afford some good patches of meadow 

 and pasture land: from the elevated bank of 

 the river the ground continues to rise ridge 

 over ridge until it reaches the mountains in 

 the rear. In the concessions called Godefroid, 



