528 CANADIAN LOCAL HISTOKT.' 



Moulenet, Isles au, in tlie River St. Lawrence, opposite the town- 

 ship of Osnabriick, are very small, and the soil tolerably good. 

 [Moulinet= Little Mill.] 



Mountain Township, in the County of Dundas, lies in the rear, 

 and to the northward of Matilda. [Perhaps from Mountain, Anglican 

 Bishop of Quebec in 1797.] 



Muddy Creek, rises in the township of Pelham, and runs into 

 Chippewa Creek, throiigh the township of Thorold, and the south- 

 west part thereof. 



Muddy Lake is situated between Lake Huron and Lake George ; it 

 is about twenty-five or thirty miles long, and not very wide ; it has 

 several small islands, of which St. Joseph's seems to be the principal. 



Murray Township, in the County of Northumberland, lies to the 

 northward of the isthmus which joins the County and Peninsula of 

 Prince Edward to the main. It is washed by the waters of Lake 

 Ontario and the river Trent, as well as by those of the Bay of Quinte. 

 [Probably from Sir James Murray, a distinguished military officer of 

 the first American war.] 



N. 



Nanticoke Creek, now called the river "Waveney, empties itself into 

 Lake Erie, between Long Point and the Grand Biver. [Nanticokes 

 were Indians so-called. Whence Nanticoke Creek, in the State of 

 New York. Waveney is a river in the EngKsh County of Sufiblk, 

 falling into the Yare — ^ whence Yarmoiith. 



Narrows, The, or petite Detroit, in the river St. Lawrence, is. 

 between Grenadier Island and the township No. 10, or Escot, now 

 included in Yonge. 



Nassau. This is now called the Home District, by an Act of the 

 Provincial Legislature, in their first session of parliament. 



Navy Hall, in the township of Newark, is about a mile from the 

 town, on the bank of the river Niagara : the buildings here are con- 

 siderably increased, and the new garrison building near it, is called 

 Fort George. [Liancourt in his Travels (i. 241) describes Navy Hall 

 as " a small, miserable house, which was formerly occupied by the 

 commissaries, who resided here on account of the navigation of the 

 Lake."] 



Navy Island, above the Great Falls in the river Niagara, is situ- 

 ated just above the mouth of the river Welland, and below Grand 



