CANADIAN LOCAL HIST'OEY- 519 



tte second Tuesday in April and October annually. [In the "Me- 

 moires sur le Canada, 1749-1760," published in 1873, by the Literary 

 and Historical Society of Quebec, is a lithograph " Vue de Frontenac 

 ou Cataracoui."] 



Kingston Township is the fourteenth uppermost township in 

 ascending the River St. Lawrence. It is in the County of Frontenac, 

 and lies partly open to Lake Ontario. 



Kitley Toionship, in the County of Leeds, lies to the eastward of 

 and adjoining to Bastard. [From the name of the family seat of the 

 Bastards, near Yealmpton, in South Devon.] 



Killikohin Point, in Sophiasburgh, Bay of Quinte, lies opposite to 

 the Mohawk settlement. [In Baraga occurs Mishwawak-okan, a 

 place where there are mishioawak, red cedars. Regarding Killi as a 

 dialectic variation for Kini, we may have here a place where there are 

 Einiwag, i.e. war eagles.] 



Knagg's Creek, or Riv'er au Jervois : which see. 



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Lac, Pointe du, the westernmost point as you descend into Lake 

 St. Francis, on the north side of the River St. Lawrence. 



Lancaster, the Township of, is in the County of Glengary, on the 

 River St. Lawrence, and the lowest in the provinces adjoining to 

 Lower Canada. [From Lancaster, the ancient county town which 

 gives Lancashire its name.] 



La/nding, West, now called Queenstown : which see. 



Land guard, in Lake Erie, so called by his Excellency the Lieu- 

 tenant-Governor, 23rd October, 1795, its former name being Pointe 

 aux Pins. This place is in latitude about 42 degree 7 minutes 15 

 seconds north ; variation 2 degrees 48 minutes westerly. There is a 

 pond at the back of the point, the entrance to which has sometimes 

 four feet and a half water on the bar. On the bank of the pond is 

 an old Indian village, from whence there is a good path to the River 

 Thames. There is a great resort of Indians to this place in the 

 spring, induced by the quantity of fish and fowl that may be taken 

 here at that season. This Point is about twenty miles or upwards 

 east of the south Foreland, and bears the only pine timber on this 

 coast. [A fort at Harwich, in Essex, is called Landguard.] 



Lansdoivne Township, in the County of Leeds, is the eleventh, 

 township in ascending the River St. Lawrence. [From the Marquis 



