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and north of Kingston is uneven, but rather rolling than hilly. 

 In the rear of the town, between it and a cluster of houses 

 contiguous, called the " French Village," there is an elevated 

 platform of naked limestone of many hundred yards square, 

 deeply but irregularly fissured ; and another smaller, east of a 

 churcli, just below it. In fact, much of the neighbourhood is 

 ver}' bare, the soil being gravelly and thin. 



Point Frederic or Navy Point, the end of the slightly ele- 

 vated tontjue of land constitutino- the east side of Kingston 

 Bay, and almost wholly covered with dock-yards, naval store- 

 liouses, military barracks, and workmen's cottages, is at the 

 same time the west side of Navy Bay, in which the vessels of 

 war lie. It admits vessels carrying a hundred guns. It is 

 790 yards long, exclusive of a variable space of marsh at the 

 bottom, and 324 yards broad, some distance within its two 

 containing points Frederic and Henry (616 yards apart). 

 Point Henry is the promontory on the east of this bay. It is 

 about 150 feet high ; and crowned with fortifications, descends 

 to the water by a rough grassy slope, which ends in a low 

 shattered cliff. The third and eastern of these coves (as they 

 are comparatively speaking), Hamilton Bay, is a narrow cul- 

 de-sac, bounded by rocky shores. A breach in its eastern side 

 forms the " Batteau Passage" to Montreal, and the jiart cut 

 off is " Cedar Island." The principal features of the vicinity 

 are seen advantageously from Fort Henry. Westerly, close at 

 his feet, the spectator has in panoramic detail the naval esta- 

 blishments of Point Frederic, and beyond them the neat town 

 of Kingston, protected behind by tall pines. On his south- 

 west is part of the open lake, bounded on the S.E. by large 

 islands, and on the N. W. by the undulating forms and woods 

 of the main. This beautiful sheet of water seems from this 

 point of view to be closed in the extreme S.W. by Amherst 

 Island, sunk deep below the horizon, at the mouth of Quinte 

 Bay. Besides Garden Island near Point Henry, and Simcoe 

 Island, it has in its centre the small spot of shingle called 

 Snake Island, which immediately arrests attention by its di- 

 minutiveness, its one vigorous tree, and single house, — used as 

 a telegraph station. Directing the eye south-east across a part 

 of the outlet a mile and a half broad, it meets the extensive 

 and low forests of Grand Island, with here and there a white 

 dwelling on its shores. The view to the north-east is speedily 

 closed beyond the cluster of houses called " Barrie Field" by 

 groves of pines growing on high and rocky ridges. 



On the south or New York shore, at this end of Lake On- 

 tario, the most considerable bay is that of Sackctt's Harbour, 

 with its outer portions named Henderson's and Cliaumont's 



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