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CANADIAN LOCAL HISTORY. 



THE FIRST GAZETTEER OF UPPER CANADA. 



WITH ANNOTATIONS, 



BY THE REV. HENRY S C A D D I JJ O , D.D. 



(Continued from page 7S.} 



After leaving Gwillimbury you enter Holland River and pass into 

 Lake Simcoe, by tlie head of Cook's Bay, to the westward of which 

 are oak plains, where the Indians cultivate corn ; and on the east is 

 a tract of good land. A few small islands show themselves as the 

 lake opens, of which Darling's Island, in the eastern part, is the most 

 considerable. (Darling's Island is now Snake Island. — Ed.) To 

 the westward is a large deep bay, called Kempenfelt's Bay, from tho 

 head of which is a short carrying-place to the River Nottawasaga, 

 which empties itself into the Iroquois Bay in Lake Huron, 

 (Iroquois Bay is now Nottawasaga Bay. The Otchibways call the 

 Iroquois Nottawas. — Ed.) 



In the north end of the lake, near the narrows, leading to a small 

 lake, is Francis Island, between which and the north shore vessels 

 may lie in safety. 



From the bay west of Francis Island there is a good path and a 

 short portage into a small lake. This is the nearest way to Lake 

 Huron; the river, which falls from Lake Simcoe into Matchedash 

 Bay, called the Matchedash River, making a more circuitous passage 

 to the northward and westward. (Matchedash River is now the 

 Severn. — Ed.) 



Black River joins the waters of Lake Simcoe nearly where they 

 fall into Matchedash channel. The source of this river is near the 

 head of the river Rideau. 



The River Matchedash, falling into a bay of that name to the east- 

 ward, which receives North and South River, discharges itself into a 

 larger basin, called Gloucester or Sturgeon Bay, in the chops of which 

 lies Prince William Henry's Island, open to Lake Huron. On a 



