. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1918, rs ago, and a ^Ir. ^IcComb l)ought theproperty and built a cottage on it. ^Ir. McComb died two. years ago and left it AECH^OLOGICAL EEPOKT. 89 to his son-ill-law, Mr. G. Bull, of New York. The spot is a most beautiful placeabout forty feet above Lake Chemong, formerly called Mud Lake. The bank ofthe lake is about twenty feet high, with a sandy shore. The Eest is abont 150yards from the lake shore and is grown up with pines, not thickly. Has a fineravine about fifty feet deep close by. Lake Chemong is on the Trent Valley canalsystem, about six miles o
. Ontario Sessional Papers, 1918, rs ago, and a ^Ir. ^IcComb l)ought theproperty and built a cottage on it. ^Ir. McComb died two. years ago and left it AECH^OLOGICAL EEPOKT. 89 to his son-ill-law, Mr. G. Bull, of New York. The spot is a most beautiful placeabout forty feet above Lake Chemong, formerly called Mud Lake. The bank ofthe lake is about twenty feet high, with a sandy shore. The Eest is abont 150yards from the lake shore and is grown up with pines, not thickly. Has a fineravine about fifty feet deep close by. Lake Chemong is on the Trent Valley canalsystem, about six miles of! the line of the canal. Now to follow the water aroundto the point where the city of Peterborough now is would be about fifty miles, butby the portage from The Rest to this point is only six miles, so it is supposedChamplain used this portage, thus saving the fifty miles water Journey. Champlains Eest is on the south-east side of Lake Chemong, and is known sofrom local traditions handed down by Indians and trappers, etc., and also partly. (liamiilains Rest. from the history of Champlain. There is an Indian Imrying-ground on the oppositeside of the lake, and Mr. Telford has picked up pottery and celts in the distance from Champlains Eest to Buckhorn Lake, which is the mouth of thefirst water running out of the chain of lakes below Bobcaygeon, and into whichChemong empties, is fifteen miles. The foregoing is compiled from letters from Mr. J. N. Telford, , Bridge-north , who formerly lived on a farm in that vicinity. Dates of letters, Feb-ruary 21st. March 2nd and 9th, 1917. Mr. W. Hickson, of Bobcaygeon, Out., in letter of February 3rd, 1917, re Champlains Eest, says That the only place he knows of is near Lake Chemong(Mud Lake), and. quotes from AYithrows (large) History of Canada, p. 63, asfollows: Champlain had been promised an escort down the St. Lawrence to 90 AECH.^OLOGICAL EEPOET. (^icbcc, but daimted by their defeat, the Hurons refused to keep their
Size: 1807px × 1383px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookauthorontariolegislativeass, bookcentury1900, bookdecade1910
