CANADIAN LOCAL HISTORY, 525 



tlie island as seen at a distance. Baniga says the name is, by the 

 Otchipways, derived from the Mishinimakingo, a kind of people who 

 rove through the woods, and are sometimes heard discharging arrows, 

 but are never seen.] 



Midland District was originally erected into a district by the name 

 of the District of Mecklenburgh, in the Province of Quebec, by His 

 Excellency Lord Dorchester's Proclamation of the 24th July, 1788. 

 It received its present name by an Act of the Provincial Legislature ; 

 is bounded on the east by a meridian passing through the mouth of 

 the River G-ananoqui ; on the south by the Piver St. Lawrence and 

 Lake Ontario ; on the west by a meridian passing through the mouth 

 of the River Trent at the head of the Bay of Quinte ; and on the 

 north by the Ottawa River. [In the second edition : Is now bounded 

 on the east by a line passing from near the mouth of the River Gan- 

 anoqui ; on the west by Leeds and Crosby townships, and thence to 

 the Allumettes on the Gr^nd River ; on the south by the River St. 

 Lawrence and Lake Ontario ; and on the west by a line passing 

 through the mouth of the River Trent, at the head of the Bay of 

 Quinte, to the Ottawa River, which river is its northern boundary.] 



Middle Island is small, and situated east of Bass Islands, and 

 northerly of Ship Island and Cunningham's Island, in Lake Erie. 



Middle Sister, a small island at the west end of Lake Erie, situated 

 between the East Sister and West Sister. 



Miliquean Creek, naming northerly, discharges itself into the 

 southernmost part of Lake Simcoe, and is now called Holland River. 

 [Minequewin= Drinking-place. ] 



Milles Isles, les, in the River St. Lawrence, are a group of small 

 islands lying opposite the townships of Leeds and Lansdowne. [The 

 Thousand Islands.] 



Milles Roches, Isle aii, contains from six to seven hundred acres. 

 The soil is good. It lies partly above and partly parallel to Isle 

 Cheval Ecart6, in the River St. Lawrence. 



Minatte, Isle de, on the north coast of Lake Superior, is situated 

 near to, and easterly of, the Grande Portage, extending to Thunder 

 Bay. 



Mississaga Island Kes opposite the mouth of the River Trent, and 

 about the same distance from the Portage at the head of the Bay of 

 Quinte, [The word signiAes Great Outlet, and is applicable to any 

 liver-estuary.] 



