CANADIAN LOCAL HISTORY. 63 



compretended in the Province of Lower Canada, and tliat the new 

 seigniories or townships, which were laid out for the loyalists, should 

 be within the Province of Upper Canada ; the said stone boundary 

 being the limit between the uppei-most French seigniory (M. De 

 Longueuil's) on the River St. Lawrence, and the lower new seigniory 

 of Lancaster, surveyed for the disbanded troops and loyalists ; his 

 Majesty having in the year 1788 signified his intention that they 

 should be placed upon the same footing in all respects as the loyalists 

 in Nova Scotia and New Brunswick, by having their lands granted 

 to them in free and common soccage. 



In passing from the Pointe au Bodet, westward, through Lake St. 

 Francis and up the River St. Lawrence, the route is generally made 

 on the north shore. Lancaster is the first township fronting this 

 lake : it extends nine miles, which is the ordinary size of the 

 townships, and extending twelve miles back from the front. Lan- 

 caster is watered by three small rivers, one of which empties itself 

 to the east, and another to the west of Pointe Mouillee, which 

 projects into the lake towards the centre of the township. 



The next township is Charlottenburg, well watered by the River 

 aux Raisins, which, rising in the Township of Osnabruck, runs 

 through that and the Township of Cornwall, and discharges itself 

 into Lake St. Francis, at the south-east angle of Charlottenburg, 

 eastward of Point Johnson. In front of this township are several 

 small islands. 



Between Charlottenburg and Cornwall is a small tract possessed 

 by the Indians, who have a considerable village on the south shore, 

 called St. Regis ; and in this part of the St. Lawrence lie several 

 islands, one called Petite Isle St. Regis, immediately opposite their 

 village, and another, Grande Isle St. Regis, a little higher up, 

 opposite the town of Cornwall. 



In the rear of Charlottenburg is the township of Kenyon. 



The township of Cornwall adjoins next ; in the front is the town, 

 of a mile square, lying in a commodious bay of the river, and watered 

 by a small rivulet which runs through the town. Two branches of 

 the River aux Raisins pass through the lands of this township ; and 

 in the front thereof are the Isles aux mille Roches et des Cheveaux 

 Ecartees ; Grande Isle St. Regis, lying in front of the town. In the 

 rear of this township is the township of Roxburgh. 



