666 CANADIAN LOCAL HISTORY. 



Walsingham Township, lies west of Charlotteville, in the County 

 of Norfolk, having the bay and marsh of Long Point in its front. 



Wapose Island, in Lake Ontario, lies off the northerly point that 

 makes Prince Edward's Bay, on the easterly shore of Marysburgh. 

 [Wah-bose = Rabbit.] 



Washquarter, or Weighqueta, afterwards called Lake Gleneva, and 

 now Burlington Bay, by proclamation, 16th July, 1792, is a very 

 beautiful small lake, lying within the head of Lake Ontario, from 

 which it is divided by a long beach : over the outlet has been erected 

 a good bridge; and on the southern part of the beach, near the por- 

 tage, is a good inn, erected by His Excellency Major-General Simcoe. 

 [A. Jones gives the name as We-qua-te-tong, and says its meaning is 

 simply Bay. The outlet, he says, was Pimmetetong-gonk = Creek 

 running through the sand. Morgan says that Burlington Bay was 

 called in the Mohawk dialect, De-o-na-sa-de-o = Where the sand forms 

 a bar.] 



Waveney River, in the County of Norfolk, rises in the township 

 •of Townsend, and running thence southerly, through the townships 

 of Woodhouse and Walpole, discharges itself into Lake Erie, where 

 it has about three feet water over the bar, and is a good harbour for 

 batteaux. [The English Waveney falls into the Yare, not far from 

 Yarmouth, Suffolk.] 



Wenitagonk, runs into Lake Ontario, in the west part of the town- 

 ship of Clarke. [Perhaps the meaning is Frenchman's Creek. Ba- 

 raga says Wemetigogi means Frenchman. He does not interpret the 

 word, which, however, denotes " one who travels in a wooden canoe 

 .or boat."] 



West Bay, Great, comprehends all that part of the Bay of Quinte 

 from John's Island, upwards, to the head of the bay. 



West Bay, lies in the south-west extremity of Lake Superior, within 

 the Isles Royale and Philippeaux. 



West Xa^e,'lies between Sandy Bay and Little Sandy Bay, on Lake 

 Ontario, east of the Isle de Quinte, and is in the township of Sophias,- 

 burgh. 



Western District, The, was originally constituted and erected into 

 ■a district by the name of the District of Hesse, in the Province of 

 Quebec, by His Excellency Lord Dorchester's proclamation, of the 

 -24th July, 1788. It received its present name by an Act of the 

 Provincial Legislature : it is bounded southerly by Lake Erie ; eas- 



