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and are now let, with all their privileges, to the 

 North- West Company at Quebec, on a lease, 

 at one thousand and twenty-five pounds per 

 annum. An establishment is maintained at 

 Tadousac, at Chicoutami on the Saguenay, at 

 Lake St. John, at Les Isles de Jeremie, near 

 Betsiamitis Point, at the Seven Islands, be- 

 yond Cap des Mont Peles, and at Cap des 

 Monts : at those towards the sea the fisheries 

 are pursued during the summer, and at the 

 interior ones the fur trade is carried on with 

 the Indians during the winter. About the 

 trading post at Chicoutami the land is tolerably 

 fertile, and the timber of a superior quality; 

 in the little agriculture that is here paid atten- 

 tion to, it has been observed that grain ripens 

 sooner than it does in the vicinity of Quebec, 

 although the situation is much further to the 

 northward : another of the many anomalies 

 that distinguish the climate of Canada. 



MiLLE Vac HE s (the seigniory of), in the 

 county of Northumberland, situated near the 

 River Portneuf, ten leagues below the Sa- 

 guenay ; it extends three leagues along the 

 bank of the St. Lawrence by four leagues in 

 depth; was granted November 15th, 1653, to 

 Robert GifFard. 



Terra Firma of Ming an (the seigniory 

 of) extends from Cape Cormorant, along the 



