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troops and a blockhouse. Lake Erie narrows here into the strait 

 which carries the waters over the great Falls of Niagara : there is a 

 good harbour here for vessels of any size. 



Ernest Town, the township of, in the Midland District, is the first 

 township above Kingston, sheltered from Lake Ontario by Amherst 

 Island, which lies in its front. [Compliment to Prince Ernest 

 Augustus, Duke of Cumberland.] 



Essex County is bounded on the east by the County of Sufiblk ; 

 on the south by Lake Erie ; on the west by the River Detroit to 

 Maisonville's Mill ; from thence by a line running parallel to the 

 River Detroit and Lake St. Clair, at the distance of four miles, until 

 it meets the River La Tranche or Thames, and thence up the said 

 river to the north-west boundary of the County of Suffolk. The 

 boundaries of this county were established by proclamation, the 16th 

 July, 1792. It sends, in conjunction with the County of Suffolk, 

 one representative to the provincial parliament. 



Etohicoke Township, in the East Riding of the County of York, 

 lies to the westward of the township of York, and has been selected 

 for the settlement of the corps of Queen's Rangers, after they shall 

 be discharged. [A. Jones gives the word as Atobicoake= Black 

 Alder Creek.] 



Eturgeon Lac : see Sturgeon Lake. 



F. 



Falls of Niagara. A stupendous cataract in the River Niagara, 

 a little below where the River Welland or Chippewa joins the waters 

 of the lakes. [Oneawgara is Mohawk for Neck. It denotes the 

 whole of the channel from Lake Erie to Lake Ontario. The nasal o 

 has been lost from the beginning of the word, as in Chippewa for 

 Otchipway and other words. A. Jones gives the Otchipway expres- 

 sion for the Niagara as Y-on-noake-sippi=Whirlpool river.] 



Falls, Great, on the River Petite Nation. 



Falls, Long : see the Long Sault. 



Fighting Island, called by the French Grose Isle aux Dindes, lies 

 about four mUes below Detroit ; it is valuable for pasture, but has 

 very little wood : the Indians in the summer make it a place of 

 encampment, and some of them plant a little corn : there is no other 

 improvement on it. On the uppermost end of the island are vestiges 

 of intrenchments, from behind the breastwork of which the Indians 



