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latore. The original name of the town was 
Niagara, afterwards called Lenox, then Nas¬ 
sau, and afterwards Newark. It is to be 
lamented that the Indian names, so grand 
and sonorous, should ever have been changed 
for others. Newark, Kingston, York, are 
poor substitutes for the original names of these 
respective places, Niagara, Cadaragui,Toronto. 
The town of Niagara hitherto has been and is 
still the capital of the province of Upper Ca¬ 
nada ; orders, however, had been issued, be¬ 
fore our arrival there, for the removal of the 
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seat of government from thence to Toronto* 
which was deemed a more eligible spot for the 
meeting of the legislative bodies, as being far¬ 
ther removed from the frontiers of the United 
States. This projected change is bv no means 
relished by the people at large, as Niagara 
is a much more convenient place of resort to 
most of them than Toronto; and as the gover¬ 
nor who proposed the measure has been re¬ 
moved, it is imagined that it will not be put in 
execution. The removal of the seat of govern¬ 
ment from Niagara to Toronto, according to 
the plan laid down, w as only to have been a 
preparatory step to another alteration : a new 
city to have been named London, was to have 
been built on the river formerly called La 
Trenche, but since called the Thames, a river 
running into Lake St. Clair; and here the 
