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northern shore of the Labrador Channel, to 

 Goynish River; was granted February 25th, 

 1661, to Sieur Francois Bissot. From Cape 

 Cormorant to St. John's River is the only part 

 now contained in the province of Lower Ca- 

 nada. In both of these tracts the land is very 

 indifferent and wholly uncultivated, indeed 

 unfit for agriculture. The group of islands 

 lying off the shore of the latter, called the 

 Mingan Islands, are advantageously situated 

 for carrying on the fisheries. 



TOWNSHIPS. 



The townships in the district of Quebec are, 

 generally speaking, so much inferior to those of 

 the other districts in the quality of the soil, and 

 so far behind them in the quantity of settle- 

 ments and state of agriculture, that the de- 

 scription of them will prove but little more 

 than a recapitulation of uncultivated lands. 



Nelson and Somerset are two irregular 

 townships in the county of Buckingham, join- 

 ing each other, and situated in the rear of the 

 seigniories of Deschaillons and Lotbiniere^ 

 Somerset is bounded by Stanfold on the south- 

 west, and is partly in the districts of Three 

 Hivers and Quebec. Nelson is bounded on 



