. Notes of sites of Huron villages in the township of Tiny, Simcoe County, and adjacent parts. Prepared with a view to the identification of those villages visited and described by Champlain and the early missionaries . n Island, which wTas also upon thewaters edge in 1649, but is now quite high above the present shore. It seems this lowering of the water did not occur suddenly. Fullyone-third of it took place wnthin the nineteenth century, and persons wholived until recent years, and who remembered the time when the GeorgianBay was above four feet higher, have verified the fall independently
. Notes of sites of Huron villages in the township of Tiny, Simcoe County, and adjacent parts. Prepared with a view to the identification of those villages visited and described by Champlain and the early missionaries . n Island, which wTas also upon thewaters edge in 1649, but is now quite high above the present shore. It seems this lowering of the water did not occur suddenly. Fullyone-third of it took place wnthin the nineteenth century, and persons wholived until recent years, and who remembered the time when the GeorgianBay was above four feet higher, have verified the fall independently of eachother. Due allowance is necessary for the direction of the wind and forthe time of the year at which the observation is made, as it appears to besubject to greater fluctuations with the seasons since the surroundingland was cleared. But, making every allowance, the evidence establishesa distinct decline of the level within the nineteenth century. Since Bay-fields survey of Georgian Bay, about 1820, the fall of level to the presenttime has been four feet six inches, as various portions of land, which wereislands then, are now at all seasons parts of the mainland. ~ mini iiur PA B S V (S^VCHOROGRAPHIA GJONI. The Huron Map in Father DuCreuxs Historia Canadensis (16G0) HISTORIC SITES OF TAY The higher shore line of 1649 would be, in many places, more deeplyserrated with long bays than the present shoreline; and this circumstancegives an explanation of some features on the map of this territory in theRev. Father Duereuxs History which represents the shores as they wereabout 1640-5, but the map itself was not issued until 1660. (rTh^-^pro—d-uc-lion of th4-s-map-, shownherewith is an exact copy from the originalby—photographic- rrretfrotte). It is really a map of the old shore line, and be difficult to identify it with the existing shore line of to-day, evenafter making due allowance for the lack of any actual survey by its is a wide discrepancy, for e
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