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several good harbours : a vessel is now building for the purpose of 

 facilitating the communication by that route. [Claies=Hurdles or 

 Wattle-work, perhaps used in the caj^ture of fish.] 



Clarence Township, in the County of Stormont, is the -fifth town- 

 ship as you ascend the Ottawa river. [Clarence, from the Duke of 

 Clarence, afterwards William lY.] 



Clarhe Township, m. the County of Durham, lies to the west of 

 Hope, and fronts Lake Ontario. [Clarke, from Oen. Sir Alured 

 Clarke : See Art. Ah(,red.'\ 



Clinton Township, in the County of Lincoln, lies west of Louth, 

 and fronts Lake (Ontario. [From Gen. Sir Henry Clinton.] 



Cochela, an island in Lake Huron, lying between the south-easterly 

 end of the Manitou Islands, and the north main. [Probably 

 in the manuscript from which the G-azetteer was printed, this was 

 Cloche la, that is Isle la Cloche. In several other instances it is 

 evident that eri"ors have arisen in these pages from misi-eading the 

 "copy."] 



Cochon, Isle om, a small island between Kingston, Gage Island, 

 and Wolfe Island ; nearest to the latter. 



Colchester Township, in the County of Essex, is situated upon Lake 

 Erie, and lies between Maiden and Gosfield. 



Cooke's Bay, on the south side of Lake Simcoe. Holland's river 

 discharges itself into the head of this bay. [From Capt. Cook, the 

 circumnavigator. ] 



Coote's Paradise, is a large marsh lying within Burlington bay, and 

 abounding in game. [From Capt. Coote of the 8th regiment, a keen 

 sportsman. Among the letters of Mr. Stegman, the early surveyor, 

 preserved in the Crown Lands Department, is the following report 

 of the survey of the village of Coote's Paradise, addressed to the Hon, 

 D. W. Smith, Esq., Acting Surveyor-General in 1801 : " Sir, — I 

 have the honour to report that in obedience to your instructions 

 bearing date May 1st, 1801, for the survey of the village near Coote's 

 Paradise, I have executed the same agreeable to the sketch received 

 from the Surveyor-General's ofiice : that Dundas street has been my 

 principal guide, in conformity to which the survey is performed : the 

 river and north branch have been carefully scaled, and particular notice 

 taken of all other small creeks and their courses, together with the 

 real situation within the limits of the svirvey, &c." The village here 

 projected is the present Dundas.] 



