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Kingston the Capital of Canada.

Kingston selected by Lord Lydenham as
the seal of government of Canada under the reunion
act is situated on the St. Lawrence, about a thousand
miles from the eastern boundary of the Province
four hundred from Quebec and two hundred from
Montreal, and about six hundred miles from the Westernmost
settlements of the late Province of Upper Canada
it is in Lat: 44.° 8' North. & Long 76.° 40' West from
Greenwich

The Town is nine miles from the United
States side of the St. Lawrence, but the American territory
is not visible from Kingston the shore being low
and concealed by Wolf or Long Island. (Grand Isle)

The town occupies a point of little elevation
formed by the bay of the Cataraqui Stream to the north
east, and an indenture of the shore to the South West

Point Frederick is a low point on the other side of
the Cataraqui bay, on which stands Her Majesty's
Dock Yard upon a long low and narrow peninsula
extending about a mile into the Lake in a south east
direction - This peninsula forms the west side of
a narrow and deep inlet called Navy Bay from its
being our chief naval depôt on Lake Ontario

The eastern shore of the inlet called
Navy Bay runs out to a point called Point Henry
the extremity of another peninsula rising about
a hundred feet above the level of the water crowned
by a Fort and Military works consisting of