CANADIAN LOCAL HISTORY. 541 



Ro}iiney Township, in the County of Essex, lies south of Tilbury, 

 on Lake Erie, near tlie South Foreland. [From a borough and 

 market town in Kent, situate on a hill, in the midst of " Romney 

 Mai'sh," 50,000 acres of rich land defended from the encroachment 

 of the sea by an embankment or wall three miles in length, twenty 

 feet high, twenty feet broad at the top, tlu-ee hundred feet broad at 

 the base.] 



Kose, Portage d la, on the south-western branch of the Ottawa 

 river, above the upper Main Fork, and higher than Portage de Plein 

 Champ. 



Rouge Biver, on the north side of Lake Superior, discharges itself 

 into that lake, west of Pointe au Calumet. [There are several other 

 rivers of this name.] 



Roxburgh Township, in the County of Stormont, lies in the rear of 

 Cornwall. [From John, third Duke of Roxburgh, the famous book 

 collector, who died in 1^S04.] 



Royal, Isle,, in the south-west of Lake Superior, lies to the north 

 of Isle Philippeaux, north-east of West Bay, and south of the Grand 

 Portage : it is about 100 miles long and 40 broad. 



Runial, Pointe d la, on the south side of the Ottawa River, lies 

 between Mons. de Longueil's Seigniory and the second township, now 

 added to Hawkesbury. 



RusGoin River falls into Lake St. Clair, betweeh Pointe aux Roches 

 and Belle River. A loaded boat may go six miles up this river ; the 

 land is exceedingly good on its banks : there is a settlement of 

 Indians a few miles up it. [From Ruscomb, a village in Berkshire.] 



Russell Township, in the County of Leeds, lies to the northward 

 of Kitley. [From Peter Russell, afterwards President of LTpper 

 Canada.. ] 



(To be can'-lud^d in the ni>.:i:t Jouriial.J 



