Its fields and gardens extend back from the river wherever the land is fertile and easiest cleared of the forest.

On the opposite side of the river there are meadows where the peasants engage in hay cutting.

The general appearance of the place was like that of an ordinary village on the lower St.Lawrence, though there were many points of difference.
In several rye fields the grain had been cut and stacked.

Near our landing was a mill, where a man, a boy, and a horse were manufacturing meal at the rate of seven poods or 280 pounds a day.

The whole machinery was on the most primitive scale.
Entering the house of the mill-owner I found the principal apartment quite neat and well arranged, its walls being whitewashed and decorated with cheap lithographs and wood-cuts.