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head of Lake Ontario there is a smaller lake, within a long beach of 

 about five miles, from whence there is an outlet into Lake Ontario, 

 over which there is a good bridge. (This smaller lake was once 

 known as Geneva Lake. The name was changed to Burlington Bay 

 by pi-oclamation, 16th July, 1792. — -Ed.) 



At the south end of the beach is the King's Head, a good inn, 

 erected for the accommodation of travellers by order of His 

 Excellency Major-General Simcoe, the Lieutenant-Governor. It is 

 beautif^illy situated at a small portage which leads from the head of 

 a natural canal connecting Burlington Bay with Lake Ontario, and 

 is a good landmark. 



Burlington Bay is perhaps as beautiful and romantic a situation as 

 any in inteiior America, particularly if we include with it a marshy 

 lake which falls into it, and a noble promontory that divides them. 

 This lake is called Coote's Paradise, and abounds, with game. (So 

 called from Capt. Coote, of the 8th Begt., a keen sportsman. — Ed.) 



From the head of the lake, following the shores of the Ontario, we 

 proceed eastward along the box'ders of the county of Lincoln, a very 

 fine and populous settlement, consisting of twenty townships, con- 

 taining about 6,000 souls, and furnishing five battalions of militia. 

 There are a great many small rivers which fall into the lake between 

 Burlington Bay and Niagara, the most beautiful of which are those 

 called the Twelve and the Twenty. These rivei-s, previously to their 

 flowing into the lake, spread behind a beach which impedes their 

 course, and the stream, finding only a small outlet into the lake, is 

 ponded back, and forms a spacious basin within ; the baiiks are high, 

 but not broken, and generally covered with fi.ne pine trees. 



Newark (or, as. it is sometimes [generally, 2nd edition] called, the 

 town of Niagara, West Niagara, and British Niagara), stands at the 



eastern bank of the River Etobicoke, being the place of beginning, containing seventy thousand 

 seven hundred and eighty-four acres, whenever tlie goods of the aforesaid value shall be 

 delivered to us Reserving to ourselves and the Missisagua nation the sole right of the flshei-ies 

 in tlie Twelve Mile Creek, the Sixteen Jlile Creek, the Etobicoke River, together with tlie flats 

 or low grounds on said creeks and river which we have heretofore cultivated,, and where we 

 have camps. And also the sole riglit of the fishery in the River Credit,, with one mile on eacli 

 side of said river. This agreement done, signed, and executed by us at tlie River Credit, this 

 second day of August, one thousand eight hundred, and five. (Signed) W. Ci-aus, Dep. 

 Sup. Gen. (on behalf of the Crown), Chechalk, Qdin.epenon, Wabukanyne, Okemapemesse. 

 Witnesses present : John Williams, Capt. 49th Regt. ;, John Brackenbury, Ens. 49th Regt; 

 P. Selby, Asst. Sec. Indian Affairs ; J. B.Rousseau." 



(Thedooument confirmatory of the " Toronto Purchase," 1805, will be given hereafter. The 

 date of the original purchase of this tract was 1787.— Ed.) 



