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rás Evite piles. = = = as ie (kit Le woe Mee = a Rent | Serle ja a Ps he ka ri OS he A Te a INTRODUCTORY. | iat aad The Author is deeply sensible of the demerits of the present volume, which has beer: compiled amid the pressing demands made by the editorial charge of a daily newspaper. Great difficulty has | ee been experienced in securing information concerning the early settlement of the respective Munici-_ palities, owing to the absence, in most cases, of official data. To avoid the use of explanatory foot is . notes and references to authorities, quotation marks have been employed, and the works consulted ia ¢ generally acknowledged. . 78 $ j8 | A large amount of space has been devoted to Biographical Sketches; yet in this department the list is far from being complete, owing to various causes, the chief of which has been lack of . co-operation upon the part of those most deeply interested. The utility and benefit of a County History rests primarily upon the facts which are collated for the use of the general historian: the Author therefore ventures to hope that the HISTORY or _ Leeps AND GRENVILLE will be productive of a more complete knowledge of the settlement, growth, a and development of the United Counties. 2 ja THAD. W. H. LEAVITT. PRINCIPAL WORKS CONSULTED. | Brockville Recorder. “Croil’s History of Dundas.” dita Monitor. Old Files of Newspapers. 1. ső Brockville Gazette. “Canadian Monthly.” * Bs ¥ een tary Companion,” . “Colonel Coffin’s Chronicle of the War. of 1812. er a and His Cotemporaries.”’ Toronto Globe. mith’s History of Canada.” “Hogan’s Essay on Canada.” [cMullen’ s History of Canada.” “Documentary History of New York. ‘tortie History of St. Lawrence and Franklin | “Life and Times of W. L. Mackenzie.” ur iatics. | “Gazetteer of New York." “Census of Canada.” sttlement of Upper Catiade: ri by Dr. Cai. “History of Methodism,” by Biayter Tackaberry s Atlas.” ~ “Parkman.” } = B at _ 7 > . , AN A mét LV na: ír! 14 en j a