534 CANADIAN LOCAL HISTOBY. 



Oxford, Townshijy of, upon Thames, in tlie Western District, lies 

 to the southward of Dimclas Street, where the western end of that 

 road meets the Upper Forks of the River la Tranche, or Thames. 



P. 



Pais Plat is a point of land on the north shore of Lake Superior, 

 within Isle Grange, and east of River Grange. [Appears as Pays 

 Plat on the present maps.] 



Paps, The, two remarkable hills on the top of a high mountain, on 

 the north shore of Lake Superior, a little east of Shanguanoe. [The 

 Paps are marked in Bayfield's chart. They are on the peninsula 

 forming the east side of Black Bay. Southward, in Bayfield, are 

 the Greater and Lesser Shaganash Fisheries.] 



Paresseux, Portage des, on the south-westerly branch of the Ottawa 

 River, above les Epingies. 



Paterson's Creek, now called the River Lynn. 



Patie Island, on the north coast of Lake Superior, near to the west 

 cape of Thunder Bay, and between Meniatte and the Main. [Perhaps 

 the island at present known as Flatland. In that case Meniatte 

 (elsewhere Minatte) would be what is now Pie Island.] 



Peach Island, is situated in Lake St. Clair, about seven miles 

 higher up than Detroit, nearly opposite to where the Grand Marais 

 communicates with that lake. It contains from 60 to 100 acres of land, 

 fit for tillage, the other parts being meadow and marsh, are fit for 

 pasture ; there is little wood on this island ; it is not improved. 



Peches, Riviere aux, runs into Lake St. Clair to the eastward of 

 Peach Island, and westerly of Riviere aux Puces. [Riviere aux P§ches 

 is Peach River.] 



Pel^ Point (or Point au Pie), now called the South Foreland, ex- 

 tending into Lake Erie, between Landguard and the mouth of Detroit 

 River, is noted for its being a good place to winter cattle at, on 

 account of the rushes which abound there. [Bald Point.] 



Pelham Township, in the County of Lincoln, lies to the south' of 

 Louth, and is watered by the Chippewa, or Welland. [From a family 

 name of the Earls of Lincoln.] 



PemetesGoutiang, called Smith's Creeh, on Lake Ontario, in Hope. 

 This is the same as A. Jones' Pam-me-sco-ti-onk=High burnt Plains.] 



Perch Cove, in Adolphus-town, Bay of Quinte, lies south of Bass 

 Cove. 



