538 CANADIAN LOCAL HISTORY, 



to Queen Charlotte, to balance " Kingston " at tlie east end of the 

 Lake.] 



Quinti, Isle de, in Lake Ontario, lies close off the shore of Ameliaa- 

 Tburgh, and opposite the west j)oint that makes Sandy Bay. [This 

 9,ppears to be the present Nicholson's Island.] 



Quinte Lake was an ancient name of the Hice Lake. It is the 

 nearest lake to the head of the Bay of Quinte, which receives its 

 waters by the River Trent. [Rice Lake is marked " Quentio " in 

 J. Rocque's map, of 1761. The name that has now become fixed and 

 familiar as Quinte, appears in early documents or maps as Kant6, 

 Kanta, Keenthee, Keinthee, Kenthe, Kentey, Kenti, Kento, and 

 Quintay, repi'esenting, as in so many other instances, the efforts of 

 different Europeans to reduce to writing sounds caught from the Kps ■ 

 of aborigines. It seems to have indicated the name of a band of 

 natives, a detachment from the Iroquois side of Lake Ontario. One 

 early rejDorter says that Kenthe means "field."] 



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Rabies, Isles attx, several small islands at the entrance of Lake 

 Superior, and at the east end thereof, east of White Eish Island, and 

 pretty close to the main land. [Properly Isles aux Erahles, Maple 

 Islands. A " Maple Island " is still marked in this quarter on maps.] 



Rabies, Pointe aux, in the Lake Superior, opposite to Isle aux 

 Rabies, the first point to the northward after you enter the lake from 

 the Ealls of St. Mary. 



Raby Head, on the north shore of Lake Ontario, in the township 

 of Darlington. [Erom Raby Head, in the English County of Durham, 

 bearing Raby Castle, a seat of the Earl of Darlington.] 



Rain Lake lies to the westward of the chain of long lakes in the 

 vicinity of the grand portage of Lake Superior. The waters of this 

 lake are supplied from sources near to the westernmost part of Lake 

 Superior, but are carried by a circuitous route into Hudson's Bay, 

 [Lac La Pluie.] 



Rainham ToionsMp, in the County of Norfolk, is the first town- 

 ship fronting on Lake Erie, west of the Grand River lands. [In the 

 County of Norfolk, England, are the parishes of East, West, and 

 South Rainham.] 



Raisin Isles, in Lake St. Francis, lie between the mouth of the 

 River aux Raisins and the point of that name. They are small and 

 .rocky. [G-rape Islands.] 



