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swamps. No portion of it is yet settled upon, 

 nor has any attempt been made to bring it into 

 cultivation, although it might be done with al- 

 most a certainty of success. There is a great 

 supply of beech, elm, maple, butternut, birch, 

 and basswood, besides abundance of cedar 

 and spruce fir in the low lands. It is watered 

 by Lake Pitt, and several small runs of water 

 that fall into the Becancour. The south-east- 

 erly part has been surveyed, and granted to the 

 late Mathew Scott and Benjamin Jobert: the 

 present proprietors are Mrs. Scott and family, 

 and the heirs of the late Mr. Frobisher. 



Inverness, in the county of Buckingham, 

 lies between Halifax and Nelson, bounded on 

 the north-west by Somerset and part of Nelson, 

 and on the south-east by Leeds. No part of 

 this tract is cultivated, although it contains 

 lands in the southerly quarter of a superior 

 quality, eligible for almost any description of 

 cultivation; and the remainder is generally 

 above mediocrity, except an extent of swamp 

 of about eight thousand acres to the northward, 

 which is covered with hemlock, spruce fir, and 

 cedar. On the dry lands, timber is in great 

 abundance and of an excellent description. It 

 is watered by Lake Wilham, which discharges 

 itself by a small stream into the Becancour, 

 and by another is connected with Lake Pitt, 



