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UPPER CANADA. 



Since the year 1791 the Province of Upper 

 Canada has been bounded in the following 

 manner ; viz. on the east by Lower Canada, on 

 the north-east by the Grand or Ottawa River, 

 which in that direction separates it from the 

 Lower Province ; on the north by the territory 

 of the Hudson's Bay Company ; on the south 

 and south-east by the United States of America^ 

 or rather by an imaginary line, beginning at the 

 village of St. Regis, on the parallel of the forty- 

 fifth degree of north latitude, from whence it 

 passes up the middle of the River St. Lawrence, 

 Lake Ontario, the Niagara River, Lake Erie, 

 and continuing thence thrpugh the middle of 

 the Water Communication into Lakes Huron 

 and Superior, the Long Lake, and along the 

 middle of the chain of lakes and water commu- 

 nication up to the north-west angle of the Lake 

 of the Woods, and from thence due west to the 



