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Dorothee, St. Joseph, and St. George, some 

 very good settlements, that are in an improved 

 condition, present themselves on the slopes of 

 the high lands, and in the intervals between 

 them: the whitewashed cottages and farm- 

 houses, frequently embosomed in thick clumps 

 of trees, have an appearance singularly pic* 

 turesque. The seigniory is watered by several 

 streams, but principally by les Russeaux du 

 Moulin, du Mouton, de UEglise, and du Cap 

 aux Oies, that descend from the rear, and 

 wind between the different ridges in a manner 

 truly decorative. On the first mentioned, near 

 its discharge into the St. Lawrence, are seated 

 an excellent grist-mill and saw-mill ; at a short 

 distance from which stands the manor-house, a 

 large and substantial stone building, with nu- 

 merous appendages. There are several roads 

 leading along the St. Lawrence, where the 

 ground is practicable for them, and in other 

 places over the ridges : they are in general to- 

 lerably good, but frequently obliged to ascend 

 some very long and fatiguing hills. The fief 

 of Madame Drapeau, of twenty-nine arpens 

 in front, and running the whole depth of the 

 seigniory, is taken from the western extremity 

 of it. From the situation of this settlement, 

 and those of Le Gouffre and St. PauFs Bay, 

 being denied access by land with other seig- 



