532 CANADIAN LOCAL HISTORY. 



vians : it is bounded on the south by Lake Erie, and watered by the 

 Thames to the northward. [The Earl of Orford, from 1791 to 1797, 

 was Horace Walpole, who would not use the title.] 



Orphan Island, in Lake Ontario, lies off the east shore of Marys- 

 burgh, and near to it, in Traverse Bay. 



Orwell River (formerly Riviere h, la Barbue), rises in a long marsh 

 towards the river Thames, and, running southerly, discharges itself 

 into Lake Erie, between Landguard and the North Foreland, having 

 about two and a-half feet of water on its bar. There is water enough 

 for a loaded boat to go three miles up this river. The land on each 

 side, in many places, consists of large rich flats, adjoining the river, 

 which appear at times to have overflowed, and on the adjacent high- 

 lands is a deep black soil. [From the river which flows by Ipswich 

 in Sufiblk. It is now better known as Catfish Creek, which is the 

 plain English of Eivi^re a la Barbue.] 



Osgoode Township, in the County of Dundas, is the second town- 

 ship on the east side of the Rideau, in ascending the river. [From 

 the name of the first Chief Justice of Upper Canada, William 

 Osgoode.] 



Osnabruck Township, in the County of Stormont, is the fourth 

 township in ascending the River St. Lawrence. [The same as Osna- 

 burg. One of the titles of the Duke of York was "Bishop of 

 Osnaburg."] 



Osweigatchie, New, on the north side of the River St. Lawrence, is 

 in the township of Ai^gusta. [Morgan says the signification of the 

 word is lost. The Old Oswegatchie is the present Ogdensburgh.] 



Oswego, is in about-43 degrees, 20 minutes of north latitude, and 

 75 degrees, 43 minutes of west longitude. It has barracks for troops; 

 the works totally decayed, and is situated in the south-eastern angle 

 of Lake Ontario, where the River Oswego falls into that lake. [The 

 complete word was Ochoueguen, which appeared also as Choueguen 

 and Chouaguen. It is said to be an exclamation — " See ! a wide 

 prospect." In the " Memoii-es sur le Canada, 1749-1860," published' 

 in 1873 by the Literary and Historical Society of Quebec, there is 

 a lithograph plan of the " Forts Ontario et Pepperell ou Chouaguen." 

 In the same work is also a plan of Old Oswegatchie, imder the name 

 of " Fort La Presentation."] 



Oswego Greek, Great, in the County of Lincoln, runs into the River 

 Welland, above the little Oswego Creek, near the north-west part of 

 the township of Wainfleet. 



