THE DISCOVERY OF BURLINGTON BAY. 4 1 



to secure an entrance to our bodies by unheeded cracks in the skin, 

 or through the pores of certain absorbing surfaces to which they may 

 become applied. In typhoid fever absolute cleanliness is an almost 

 sure condition of freedom from infection, unless the infectious ma- 

 terial comes to surround us in what we may call clouds, while in the 

 other mentioned diseases there is no doubt but that it affords an 

 additional security. 



If then we would keep our families free from the danger attend- 

 ing infectious diseases, some of which set medical skill at defiance, 

 let us attend to the cleanliness of our persons and places of abode ; 

 let us not have about our premises any quiet neglected corners, 

 where organic matter may rest and become influenced by heat and 

 moisture,and so in time come to give life and growth to organisms, 

 whose neighborhood is often so dangerous to us, and let us remem- 

 ber too that in this matter each of us is to some extent his brother's 

 keeper. We must keep a look-out on each other, and none of us 

 need be annoyed if, now and then, a neighbor should personally, 

 or through the authorities, call our attention to some neglect on our 

 part, which is rendering all his carefulness of no effect, and 

 threatening him with grievous disaster. 



THE DISCOVERY OF BURLINGTON BAY, 



With some Accounts of the Aborigines of the Province of Ontario 

 and the State of New York. 



BY B. E. CHARLTON. 



Two and a half centuries ago, or to be more correct say about 

 the year 1634, a glance at this portion of the continent of North 

 America, finds the French re-established at Quebec, and also in a 

 small way at Hochelaga, now Montreal. And the Dutch at New 

 Holland and Manhattan, now respectively Albany and New York. 



Of the Indian tribes, the two prominent nations were the Hur- 

 ons, allies of the French, in the north, extending from lake Simcoe 

 around the Georgian bay along the French and Ottawa rivers ; and, 

 on the other hand, the fierce Iroquois to the sonth, extending east- 

 ward from Niagara river, and south from Lake Ontario and the St. 

 Lawrence. The former trading with the French at Montreal and 

 Quebec, by way of the Ottawa ; the latter trading with the Dutch 



