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ROND' EAU, POINT AUX PINS, or LANDGUARD.
A Harbour on Lake Erie, sixty-five miles below the head of the lake. A cape
projects, which incloses a natural basin of about 6000 acres in extent, and with
a depth of from ten to eleven feet. The communication between the basin and
the lake is across a sand-bank of about forty yards in breadth, and only a few
feet above the level of the water. The government has commenced improvingthe
harbour, by cutting a channel through the bank, running out piers, &c.
When completed, it will be a woi'k of great importance to vessels navigating the
lake, and also as a shipping-place to the surrounding country— it being fourteen
miles from Chatham, in the County of Kent, and an excellent road having lately
been completed between the two places.
ROSS.
A Township in the Bathurst District; is bounded on the north-east by the
Ottawa River; on the north-west by Westnieath; on the south-west by Bromley;
and on the south-east by Horton. In Ross 6,468 acres are taken up, 615 of
which are under cultivation. This township has lately been divided, and the
township of Bromley separated from it. Ross is at present but little settled, and
29,200 acres of Crown lands are open, for sale in it. There are two saw mills in
the township.
Population in 1842, 168.
Ratable property in the township, £2,845.
ROUGE RIVER.
A small River, which takes its rise in the townsliip of Whitchurch, and flows
through Markham and Scarborough; in which latter township it enters Lake
Ontario. It is a good mill stream, and there is some excellent timber on its
banks.
ROXBOROUGH.
A Township in the Eastern District; is bounded on the north-east by the'
reserve of the St. Regis Indians; on the north-west, by Plautagenet and a small
portion of Cambridge; on the south-west by Finch: and on the south-east by
Cornwall. In Roxborough 20,1 18 acres are taken up, 2,41 1 of which are under
cultivation. This township is pretty well settled, and contains good land.
Timber—a mixture of pine and hardwood. Three hundred and fifty acres of
Crown lands are open for sale in Roxborough, at 8s. currency per acre.. There
are one grist and two saw mills in the township.
Population in 1842, 1,107; who are jirincipally Scotch and Irish.
Ratable property in the township, £9,1)92.
RUSCOM RIVER.
Take its rise in the township of Gosfield, and runs through the township of
Rochester, within from two to three miles of its eastern border, till it enters Lake
St Clair. It is several feet deep for some miles before it enters the lake.
RUSSELL.
A Township in the Ottawa District; is bounded on the east by the township
of C^ambridge; on the north-west by Cumberland; on the south-west by Osgoode;
and on the south-east by Winchester and Finch. In Russell 4,9.')6 acres are
taken up, 504 of which are under cultivation. Several branches of the Petite
Nation River are spread over the township, on the banks of which there is a
gi'eat deal of pine timber. Russell is as yet but little settled; and 19,S.'}5 acres
of Crown lands are open for sale in it, at 8s. currency per acre. There are one
grist and three saw mills in the township.
Population in 1842, 196.
Ratable property in the township, £2,390.