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It Runs to the Southward as far as Nova Scotia, Newhampshire, & the Massachusetts, to which Countries Several Rivers of this Government Afford a short passage, especially those of Nicolette, & Biencour, which run up within five or six miles of the source of Kennebeck River, and that of S^t François, navigable for Canoes to the Portage, which is six miles over, You then Enter a branch of the Connecticut River. To the Northward, this Government stretches thro' an Immense Tract of Country, as far as Hudson's Bay; and the same Nations that trade with the Company settled there, used formerly to bring their Furs into this Government thro' the Rivers of S^t Maurice & Batiscan.

Notwithstanding the Factory settled at Hudson's Bay, and the Posts at Tadousac, & Chicoutimi up the Saguenay, the easy Navigation of those Rivers especially that of Batiscan, Induces several of the Indians, Called Têtes de Boulle to Come down even now to this Government every spring.