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minating in a curved point nearly opposite the 

 garrison ; thus enclosing a beautiful basin about 

 a mile and a half in diameter, capable of con- 

 taining a great number of vessels, and at tht? 

 entrance of which ships may lie with safety 

 during the winter. The formation of the penin- 

 sula itself is extraordinary, being a narrow slip 

 of land, in several places not more than sixty 

 yards in breadth, but widening towards its ex- 

 tremity to nearly a mile ; it is principally a 

 bank of sand with a very little grass upon it ; 

 the widest part is very curiously intersected by 

 many large ponds, that are the continual resort 

 of great quantities of wild fowl ; a few trees 

 scattered upon it greatly increase the singularity 

 of its appearance ; it lies so low that the wide 

 expanse of Lake Ontario is seen over it : the 

 termination of the peninsula is called Gibraltar 

 Point, where a block-house has been erected. 

 The eastern part of the harbour is bounded by 

 an extensive marsh, through part of which the 

 river Don runs before it discharges itself into 

 the basin. No place in either province has 

 made so rapid a progress as York : in the year 

 1793 the spot on which it stands presented only 

 one solitary Indian wigwam ; in the ensuing 

 spring the ground for the future metropohs of 

 Upper Canada was fixed upon, and the build- 

 ings commenced under the immediate supers 



