129 I T* he 30 ctbSIONAL PAPER No. 18 The land on which they are "-ettled was granted to tlicrn by Messieurs Duchambon and Dubui-sou. T!mv have made a clearing on it where they onlirt.irilv sow forty bushels of grain yearly, and will sow that quantity next spring if they are given tha seed. Ar.toine Dcchcvery, fUh^nnan and ploughrnan, native of Bayonne, aged 10 years; has been 1\> years in the colony. Married to Marie Pinet , native of Canada , aged years. They have six children, five sons and ono daughter : Denis I'cchevery, aged 11 years. Antoine, aged 10 years. Francois, aged 8 years. Pierre, aged 6 years. Jean, aged 1 years. Marie, aged G months. In stock they have six oxen, one cow, one heifer, two calves, one mare, six ewes, four pigs and three hens. The land on which they are settled was given to them by Noel Pinet , their father. They have made a clearing where they could sow 36 bushels of grain in the coming spring. Jean Baptiste Pinet , fisherman and ploughman, native of Quebec , aged 41 years. Married to Jeanne Pillot , native of La Hochelle, aged 24 years. They have three sons : * Charles Pinet , aged I years. . . Bazille, aged 3 years. Jean Baptiste , aged 2 years. In stock they have : two oxen, one cow, one calf and four pigs. Tho land on which they are settled is part of the homestead of their father. They have n?uue a clearing where they could sow twenty bushels of grain if it were given to them. Pierre Pinet , ploughman, native of Petit Degrat, aged 24 years. Married to ■ Genevieve Trahant , nativo of l'Acadie, aged 22 years. They have three sons: . • Jean Pinet , aged 3 years. •• * ■ . Piene, aged 2 year3. Paul, aged 6 weeks. . They have in live stock two oxen, two cows, one calf, one wether and one pig. They are 3e.tled on the homestead of Noel Pinet , their father. They have made a- clearing where they could sr.w thirty bushels of grain if they had it. We leff on the 13th "nd took the route for l'Etang duJSTpffrage, following the sea shore continually"for theTs,nrleagues at"which the distance from the Post at Pointer de l'Est to l'Etang du Noffrage is estimated. In this distance we met with nothing worthy of notice. The land is a desert owing to the occurrence of the fire, but a short distance inland the country is covered with hardwood and the soil was good for the production of all kinds of griia and roots ; everything coining up in abundance. Owing to the lack of seed grain the settler here was unable to seed his land this year, but the small quantity of wheat which hf was able to sow is amongst the finest in the island. The ears are long, large and well filled. The Etang du Nofirr.ge runs a quarter of a leagus inland to the south-west. The breadth averages 80 toiscs. At the extremity of the £tang, a long brook, which never dries up, discharges its water. This brook is supplied from tv o large springs lying at a distance of two leagues and a half inland to the . The brook contains sufficient water to run Hour and saw mills, but ns regards the latter they are considered useless as there is no timbc.- suitable for sawing, all the hardwood, growing in the sur¬ rounding district being good at the best for the building of boats. / \ V *e left on the 14th for St. Pierre du Nord . We counted the distance between tho two points as six leagues by the road. We saw nothing on the way that calls for description. __ • 18—9 ">l