522 CANADIAN LOCAL HiSTORY, 



London, the TovJnshvp of, is situated in the main fork of tiie Rivei' 

 Thames, in a central situation from the Lakes Erie, Hui'on, and 

 Ontario. [Here it was at first intended that the capital of the 

 province should be seated. Georgina was once thought of as its 

 name, in compliment to George III.] 



Long Reach is the communication from Hay Bay to East Bay, in • 

 the Bay of Quinte. 



Long Beach on Lake Ontario, tlie westernmost point of which is 

 the boundary between the Counties of Durham and York, and be- 

 tween the townships of Darlington and Whitby. 



Lower Landing, or East Landing, on the River Niagara, is oppo- 

 site to Queenstown, on the Niagara Fort side, [now Lewistown.] 



fjong Lakes, The, are a chain of small lakes, extending westerly 

 from the Grand Portage of Lake Superior towards Rain Lake. 



Long Point, on Lake Erie, now called the North Foreland, is that 

 long beach or sand bank, stretching forth into Lake Erie, from the 

 township of Walsingham, and forming the deep Bay of Long Point. 

 It is upwards of twenty miles long. From the head of the bay there 

 is a carrying place across, over a flat sand, about eight chains dis- 

 tance, into Lake Erie, ^^>"hich sometimes is sufficiently overflovfn, to 

 be used as a passage for small boats. [The name " North Foreland" 

 has to a great extent dropped out of use. A. Jones gives as the 

 Otchipway name of Long Point Creek, Singua-conses-can-sippi= 

 Small-pine Creek. The large creek west of Long Point, he says, was 

 known as Gan-ce-mon-sippi=Sail Creek. Baraga gives for "Sail,'* 

 nm-gassi-monan . ] 



Long Point is the southernmost point of Isle Tonti, running out 

 and making a small bay, opposite to which there is a little island. 



Long Saut, isle om, in the River St. Lawrence, and in front of the ' 

 township of Osnabruck, contains from 1000 to 1500 acresj the soil 

 is good. . 



Longueil Township, in the County of Giengary, is the second in 

 ascending the Ottawa River. [From, the name of a seigniory estab-. 

 iished here in 1734 — -New Longueuil; so called to distinguish it from 

 the Old Longueuil, on the south side of the St. LaMa-ence, just below 

 Montreal, established in 1672.] 



Loughborough Township, in the County of Frontenac, lies in the 

 rear, and to the north of Kingston. [From Lord Loughborough, Lord 

 High Chancellor in 1793. His family name was Wedderburn.j 



