CANADIAN LOCAL HISTORY. 67 



The town of Kingston is situated at the head of the St. Lawrence 

 on the north shore, opposite to Wolfe Island ; it occupies the site of 

 old Fort Frontenac, was laid out in the year 1784, and is now of 

 considerable size ; it has a barrack for troops and a house for the 

 commanding officer, an hospital, several storehouses, an Episcopal 

 Church, [a Roman Catholic Chapel,] a gaol and court house. A 

 cove near to the town [upon which the to^vn is situated : 2nd ed.] 

 ajSbrds a good harbour for shipping ; it is safe, commodious and well 

 sheltered. Large vessels seldom go below Kingston, although it is 

 navigable to Oswegatchie, about 70 miles down the river ; the stores, 

 provisions, &c., which are lodged in the depot at this place, being 

 usually transported there in boats from Montreal. 



About Kingston there are several valuable quarries of limestone, 

 and the country in general is rather stony, which is not found to be 

 detrimental to the crops. 



The township which surrounds this town bears the same name. 



Ernest-town lies above Kingston; it is watered by two small 

 rivers ; Amherst Island lies in its front. In the rear of this town- 

 ship is Camden; the Appenee river, on which there are excellent 

 mills, runs through it. 



I Having passed Ernest-town, the Bay of Quints commences with 

 Fredericksburgh to the north at its entrance, and Marysburgh to the 

 south. 



This bay, which may be considered throughout as a harbour, is 

 formed by a large peninsula, consisting of the townships of Amelias- 

 burgh, Sophiasburgh and Marysburgh, extending easterly from an 

 isthmus, where there is a portage, at the head or west end of the 

 bay, to Point Pleasant, the easternmost extremity of the peninsula, 

 opposite to Amherst Island. 



The River Trent empties itself into the head of the bay, to the 

 eastward of the portage, and supplies it with the waters of the Rice 

 lake. To the westward of the portage, in Lake Ontario, is the 

 harbour of Presqu' Isle de Quinte, now called Newcastle. 



This peninsula of the three townships, called the county of Prince 

 Edward, extending from the mainland Kke an arm, hides from the 

 Lake Ontario the townships of Sidney, Thurlow, Adolphustown and 

 Fredericksburgh, which front the north side of the bay. 



The River Trent, discharging itself between the townships of 

 Murray and Sidney, finds its passage between the county of Prince 



