306 CANADIAN LOCAL HISTORY. 



Adolphus Town is situated in the Bay of Quinte : it is bounded 

 southerly, westerly and northerly by the waters of the bay, and 

 easterly by the township of Fredericksburgh, in the Midland District. 

 The courts of G-eneral Quarter Sessions of the Peace are holden here 

 annually, the second Tuesday in January and July. 



Adolphus Town, the township of, in the County of Lenox, lies to 

 the westward of Fredericksburgh, in the Bay of Quinte. ["Adolphus," 

 from Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambridge, youngest son of George 

 III.] 



Aldborough Township, in the County of Suffolk, lies to the west 

 of Dunwich : it is washed by the Thames on the north and by Lake 

 Erie on the south. [Probably from Aldborough in Suffolk, England, 

 a fishing-town at the mouth of the River Aide. There is another 

 Aldborough in the West Riding of York, the Isurium Brigantium 

 of the Roman period.] 



Alempignon Lake lies to the northward of Lake Superior, and 

 between it and the mountains which bound the Hudson's Bay Com- 

 pany and New South Wales to the southward. It contains several 

 small islands, and is about the size of Lake Nipissing. [This is the 

 same as Lake Nipigon,, now familiar to tourists. In Otchipway, 

 Nibegom : " I wait for game in the night on the water in a canoe." 

 (See Baraga's Otchii)way Dictionary, p. 279.) In a list of names in 

 Schoolcraft's American Indians (p. 25, n.), to Alempigon is subjoined 

 the note : " Improperly written for Nipigon, a small lake north of 

 Lake Superior."] 



Alfred Township, in the County of G-lengaiTy, is the third township 

 in ascending the Ottawa river. 



Alnwick Township, in the County of Northumberland, lies in the 

 rear and north of Haldimand. 



Alumets les, on the Ottawa river, above the Rapids, which are 

 higher than Riviere du Nord. [Allumeiles : Matches for enkindling 

 a light, &c.] 



Alwred Cape, in the township of Clai-ko, north side of Lake. 

 Ontario. [Alured was the baptismal name of G-eneral Clarke (after- 

 wards Sir Alured), from whom the township had its name. It is an 

 archaic form of Alfred.^ 



Arndlashurgh Township, in the County of Prince Edward, is the 

 westernmost township of that county, bounded by the carrying place- 

 which leads from the head of the Bay of Quinte to Lake Ontario, 



