A Topographical Description of the Province of Lower Canada. With Remarks upon Upper Canada, and on the relative connexion of both Provinces with the United States of America. By Joseph Bouchette, Esq, Surveyor-General of Lower Canada ... Embellished by several Views, Plans of Harbours, Battles, &c

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J/t7/idpsiJii£iiirted AMay j jÆio. if WAFa^i,'Ssoffr^fk&ri^ /ti/\'Jfiif&iy. {staring O-o/A. A Copograpfucai description OF THE PROVINCE OF LOWER CANADA _> WITH REMARKS UPON UPPER CANADA, AND ON THE RELATIVE CONNEXION OF BOTH PROVINCES WITH Œ&e Unite* States of America. BY JOSEPH BOUCHETTE, ESQ. SURVEYOR-GENERAL OF LOWER CANADA AND LIEUTENANT-COLONEL CM. EMBELLISHED BY SEVERAL VIEWS, PLANS OF HARBOURS, BATTLES, LONDON : PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR, AND PUBLISHED BY W. FADEN, GEOGRAPHER TO HIS MAJESTY AND THE PRINCE REGENT, CHARING-CROSS. 1815. T. UAVISO.v, Lomb*rd-Ktreci, Wliitelrian, London. \ TO HIS ROYAL HIGHNESS GEORGE AUGUSTUS FREDERICK, PRINCE OF WALES, DUKE OF CORNWALL AND ROTHSAY, 4-c. fa. SfC. AND PRINCE REGENT OF THE eanttrti Itinguom of Ætoat=Britain anil Manfc* Sir, Impelled by a desire of being useful to rny native country and to its parent state, it is with the utmost deference I most respectfully offer to your Royal Highnesses acceptance a Topographical Map and Description of the Province of Lower Canada, completed after several years of unremitting efforts, and I may venture to add of unwearied diligence.

If it should obtain the distinguished favour of being honoured by your approval, I shall ever con sider such a circumstance as an additional testi mony of the readiness with which your Royal Highness patronises any work that may convey information of real utility, however humble, rather than as an indication of superior talent on my part. A servant of our revered Monarch for the greatest part of my life, I have ever be lieved it incumbent to repay the trust reposed in me, by making the public service a con sideration paramount to all others, whenever the performance of my duties or other personal exertions could in any way contribute thereto. This desire, acting as the main spring of my endeavours, has induced me to think, that whatever has a tendency to demonstrate the actual state of the Canadas, and to place their greatly improvable resources in a true point of view, as valuable jewels of the British diadem, would neither be deemed unimportant nor de stitute of advantage ; I have therefore directed all the abilities at my disposal towards that V object.

If I have been at all successful, the gracious benevolence of your Royal Highness will cause me to lament the limited capacity displayed in performing the task imposed upon myself. By birth a Canadian, I have at a distance contemplated with admiration and heart-felt reverence the unequalled blessings of our constitution, which holds its protecting ægis over the most remote as powerfully as over its domestic subjects, and has so bounti fully extended its inimitable purity and justice to my fellow countrymen in particular ; but this reverence is exalted to the highest degree now that I experience how it endues an in dividual like myself, from another hemisphere, with the privilege freely to approach his Sovereign, and lay the result of a well in tentioned labour on the steps of the Throne. Scarcely with diminished admiration do I ex press my acknowledgments for the courtesy that your Royal Highness has so condescend ingly shewn, by permitting my performance to make its appearance under your auspices ; VI such a mark of distinction will increase the grateful impressions with which I feel proud to subscribe myself, Your Royal Highnesses Most devoted, faithful, and most obedient servant, JOSEPH BOUCHETTE.