CANADIAN LOCAL HISTORY. 521 



towiisliip of Edwardsburgli. On this island are the ruins of a French 

 fortification. [From de Levis, second in command under Montcalm.] 



Lincoln County is divided in four ridings ; the first riding is bounded 

 on the west by the County of York; on the south by the Grand 

 River, called the Ouse ; thence descending that river xmtil it meets 

 an Indian road leading to the forks of the Chipjiewa creek (now 

 called the Welland), thence descending that creek until it meets the 

 late towiiship, Number 5, thence north along the said boundary until 

 it intersects Lake Ontario, and thence along the south shore of Lake 

 Ontario until it meets the south-east boundary of the County of York. 

 The second riding is bounded on the west by the first riding; on the 

 north by Lake Ontario; on the east by the River Niagara; and on 

 the south by the northern boundaiy of the late townships, No. 2, 

 No. 9, and No. 10— [of the Townships of Pelham, Thorold, and 

 Stamford. Second edition.] — The thii-d riding is bounded on the 

 east by the River Niagara; on the south by the Chippewa, or Wel- 

 land, on the west by the eastern boundary of the first riding ; and on 

 the north by the southern boundary of the second riding. The fourth 

 riding is bounded on the east by the River Niagara; on the south by 

 Lake Erie, to the mouth of the Grand River or Ouse, thence up that 

 river to the road leading from the Grand River or Ouse, to the forks 

 of the Chippewa or Welland; and on the north by the said road un- 

 til it strikes the forks of the Welland, and thence down the Welland 

 to the River Niagara. The fourth riding includes the islands com- 

 pressed within the easternmost boundaries of the Pdver Niagara, 

 The boundaries of this county were established by Proclamation, the 

 16th July, 1793. The second and thii-d riding send each one repre- 

 sentative to the Provincial Parliament. The first riding sends one, 

 in conjunction with the Counties of Durham and York; and the 

 fourth riding sends one in conjunction with the County of Norfolk. 

 [The name Lincoln may have been a compliment to the ninth Earl 

 of Lincoln, who died in 1794. He was the first Eai-1 who assumed 

 the name of Pelham, in addition to that of Clinton, on his succeeding 

 to the dukedom of Newcastle.] 



Little Bay, on Lake Ontario, the westernmost j)oint of which is 

 the boundary between the County of Northumberland and Durham, 

 and between the townships of Hamilton and Hope. [Big Bay lay 

 three townships to the west, and was afterwards successively known 

 as Windsor Bay and Port Whitby.] 



