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miles above Detroit ; it contains about 300 acres of land fit for tillage, 

 and a large quantity of marsh and meadow land. It bas some wood 

 on it : the land is low, but valuable for pasturage, is rich, improved, 

 and contains about 1,700 statute acres. 



Holland's River runs from the south-west, and empties itself into 

 Cook's Bay, Lake Simcoe. [From Major Holland, Surveyor-General 

 of the Province of Quebec in 1790.] 



Home District, The, was originally constituted and erected into a 

 district by the name of the Distiict of Nassau, in the Province of 

 Quebec, by his Excellency Lord Dorchester's Proclamation of the 

 24:th of July, 1788. It received its present name by an Act of the 

 Provincial Legislature. It is bounded easterly by a meiidian passing 

 thi'ough the mouth of the River Trent ; northerly by the Ottawa 

 River into Lake Tamiscaming, and the bounds of the Hudson's Bay 

 Company ; also by part of Lake Huron ; westerly by a meridian 

 passing thi-ough the eastern extremity of Long Point or the North 

 Foreland ; and southerly by part of Lake Ontario and part of Lake 

 Erie. [The Home District was so named from the fact that York, 

 the seat of the Provincial Government, was situated in it. In the 

 Second Edition, the above reads as follows : It is now bounded 

 easterly by a line running northward from between Whitby and 

 Darlington townships, on the Lake Ontario, to Talbot River, and 

 from thence to Lake Nipissing ; westerly by London District ; and 

 on the south by the District of Niagara and the Lake Ontario.] 



Hope Township, in the County of Durham, lies to the west of 

 Hamilton, and fronts Lake Ontario. [From Admiral Sii' George 

 Hope.] 



Hope's Gove, one of the principal harbours in the Bass Islands, 

 Lake Erie, close to St. George's Island. 



Hocquart Isle, in Lake Superior, lies southerly of Michipicoten 

 Bay, and northerly of Isle St. Ann. [Probably Maurepas or Michipi- 

 coten Island. This article is not in the second edition. M. Hoc- 

 quart was Intendant at Quebec in 1755.] 



Horn, Gape, is on the east main, at the north end of Muddy Lake, 

 and at the entrance of the strait that leads from Lake George ; to 

 the northward of it, in the strait, are high rocks. 



Hospital Island, in the River St. Lawrence, in front of the town- 

 ship of Edwardsburgh, contains about 100 acres; it lies immediately 

 above Point au Gallop. 



