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niory. In Mount Murray the best settlements 

 are on the borders of Malbay river, and stretch 

 as far as those on the opposite shore. The 

 manor-house belonging to Colonel Fraser, called 

 Mount Murray, is yery well situated at the en* 

 trance of the bay on the east side, and sur- 

 rounded by a large tract of well-cultivated 

 lands. Both grants are watered by several 

 streams, neither of which are more than suffi- 

 cient to work the mills. 



Hare Island lies nearly in the middle of 

 the St. Lawrence, abreast of the seigniory of 

 Riviere du Loup; it is nearly eight miles in 

 length by the average breadth of about half a 

 mile, low and flat, extending in a direction 

 nearly parallel to the shores of the river : the 

 soil is good, but wholly uncultivated ; at each 

 extremity there are long and dangerous shoals 

 stretching off from it. On the south-east side 

 lie the three small islands called the Brandy 

 Pots, already noticed in speaking of the navi- 

 gation of the river : on the westerly one is 

 placed the telegraph No. 13, the last in the 

 chain from Quebec. 



The River Saguenay, which discharges 

 itself into the St. Lawrence, at Pointe aux Al- 

 louettes, is the largest of all the streams that 

 pay their tribute to the Great River ; it draws 

 its source from Lake St. John, a collection of 



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