516 CANADIAN LOCAL HISTORY. 



Houghton Township, in. the County of Norfolk, lies west of Walsh- 

 ingham and Lake Erie. [On tlie Lake Erie. Second edition. Many- 

 places in England are named Houghton. Three parishes in the 

 County of Norfolk are so called. Hough = hill.] 



Howard Township, in the County of Suffolk, lies west of Oxford ; 

 it is watered on the north by the Thames, and on the south by Lake ' 

 Erie. [Howard is the family name of the Dukes of Norfolk.] 



Hoioe Island, in the County of Ontario, lies m the River St. 

 Lawrence, between Wolfe Island and Pittsburgh. [From Admiral 

 Lord Howe, who died in 1799. In the second edition the words "in 

 the County of Ontario," are omitted.] 



Humher River, in the East Riding of the County of York, empties 

 itself into Lake Ontario, a little to the westward of the old fort, 

 Toronto. [It was sometimes called St. John's River. Augustus 

 Jones gives as its Otchipway appellation, Co-bec-he-nonk = " leave 

 canoes and go north."] 



Humherstone Toionship, in the Coimty of Lincoln, lies between 

 Bertie and Wainfleet, and fronts Lake Erie. [From Humberstone 

 in the English County of Norfolk, four miles from Grimsby.] 



Hungerford Township, in the County of Hastings, lies in the rear 

 and to the northward of the Mohawk tract. [From the name of a 

 market town and parish in Wiltshire.] 



Huntingdon Township, in the County of Hastings, lies in the rear 

 and to the northward of Thurlow. [From the county town of Hunt- 

 ingdonshii'e, or from a hamlet so named near Hereford.] 



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Industry Point, or Morgan's Point, on the north shore of Lake 

 Erie, west of Sugar Loaf. 



Iroquois, Povnte aux, on the River St. LaAvrence, six or seven 

 miles aboye the Rapid Plat, in the township of Matilda. 



Ivrogne Point, in the River St. Lawrence, in front of the township 

 of Edwardsburgh, lies a little below Isle du Fort Levi, on the north . 

 shore. [Iv. = drunken.] 



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Jervois, River ait,, or Knagg's Creek, falls into the Detroit River, 

 near the town of Sandwich. 



Joachims, VPtang des, on the Ottawa River, is below the River de 

 Moine. [Etang = pool.] 



