S36 CANABIAN LOCAL HISTORY. 



Pins, Pointe aux, now called Landguard (by order of His Excel- 

 lency the Lieutenant-Governor, 23rd October, 1795), Lake Erie. 



Pins, Pointe aux, or Eort Gloucester, Lake Superior. 



Pins, Pointe aux, on the River St Lawrence, is in front of the town- 

 ship of MatUda, below Point Iroquois. 



Pittsburgh Township, in the County of Frontenac, is the thirteenth 

 township in ascending the River St. Lawrence. [Perhaps from Pitts- 

 burgh on the Ohio, built on the site of Fort Pitt, previously Fort du 

 Quesne, and named after the elder Pitt.] 



Plantagenet Township lies partly in the County of Glengary, a,nd 

 partly in Stormont : it is the fourth township in ascending the Ottawa 

 River. [From one of the family names of the Duke of Bucking- 

 ham.] 



Pleasayit Pointe, the easternmost extremity of the township of 

 Marysburgh, at the entrance of the Bay of Quinte. 



Pluie, Lac la, lies between Sturgeon Lake and Lake Dubois, and 

 to the eastward of the latter. See Rain Lake. [The native name of 

 this lake is given as Tecamamionen. Lac Dubois is Lake of the 

 Woods.] 



Pluie, Rivihre la, runs from Lac la Pluie westward, into Lac 

 Dubois. 



Portage, le Grand, on Lake Superior, leads from the north-west of 

 that lake to a chain of smaller lakes, on the communication to the 

 north-western trading ports. 



Portage de plein Champ, on the south-westerly branch of the Ottawa 

 River, above the main forks. 



Portland Township, in the County of Frontenac, lies west of Lough- 

 borough, and north of Kingston. [A compliment to the Duke of 

 Portland of the day.] 



Pottohawk Point, in the bay of Long Point, lies opposite to Turkey 

 Point. [On Lake Erie.] 



Presentation Fort, or Oswegatchie, on the south side of the River 

 St. Lawrence, about Point Gallo. [Fort La Presentation originated 

 in the Abbe Picqiiet's Mission establishment of the same nam.e. He 

 was an active French agent among the Iroquois. The Marquis du 

 Quesne used to say that the Abbe was as good as ten regiments on 

 the French king's side.] 



[Prescott County, in the Eastern District, is' bounded by Monsieur 

 Longueil's, Seigniory on the east, by the Counties of Glengary and 



