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CANADIAN LOCAL HISTORY. 



THE FIRST GAZETTEER OF UPPER CANADA. 



WITH ANNOTATIONS, 



BY THE REV. HENRY SCADDING, D.D. 



(Contimi-ed from page $17.) 



A. 



Abino Greek, in the County of Lincoln, empties itself into Lake 

 Erie, in the township of Bertie, at the head of the hay, east of Point 

 Abino. 



Abino Point, in the township of Bertie, on Lake Erie, is nine or 

 ten miles west of Fort Erie. [In a letter of Chief Brant's, dated 

 1794, given in Perkins' "Annals of the West," p. 396, this place is 

 spoken of as " Point Appineau." Abino is probably an abridged 

 form of the Otchipway word abino-dgi, " child." In Lake Superior 

 there is a point named Gtianagouassgokag, " Little Gii'l's Point."] 



Addington County is bounded on the east by the County of Fron- 

 tenac ; on the south by Lake Ontario, to the westernmost boundary 

 of the late townsliip of Ernest Town ; and on the west by the town- 

 ship of Fredericksburgh, running north 31 degrees west, until it 

 meets the Ottawa or Grand River, and thence descending that river 

 until it meets the north-westernmost boundary of the County of 

 Frontenac. This county comprehends all the islands nearest to it. 

 [In the 2nd edition, this article reads as follows : '^Addington and 

 Lenox Co^mty is bounded on the east by the County of Frontenac, 

 on the south by Lake Ontario, and on the west by the County of 

 Hastings. This county comprehends all the islands nearest to it ; it 

 sends, in conjunction with Hastings and Northumberland, one repre- 

 sentative to the Provincial Parliament." Addington perpetuates the- 

 name of Mr. Speaker Addington, 1793, afterwards Lord Sidmouth.. 

 Lenox, more usually Lennox, was a compliment to Charles Lennox, 

 third Duke of Richmond, Master of the Ordnance in the reign of 

 George III.] 



