This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XIV. THE BONNIE EASTHOPES. "The Laird o'' Mcintosh is comin'', The Widow McTarish and a'' her sons comin'', The Tachran, Crerar, Fra,cr, Kippen''s comin'', And a'' the Jive voters for JJunlop''s comin''. Little n at ye fa''s comin'', McXauijhlon, Duncan, Scott and Rankin." The many gaps in the history of Champlain''s famous trip of 1616 leave margin for industrious readers to find material wherewith to fill the omissions. It is supposed that after he built his camp-fire at the mouth of the Minnesetung, held his council there with the tribes of the Huron Tract, and spent the winter with the Neutral nation, that he turned to Georgian Bay by the height of land. This would bring us to Seebach''s Hill, and the well-known Indian trail along which mourning Indians carried their dead as late as the first years of the Stratford and Perth settlement, on their way to the Indian burying-ground near Owen Sound. The fact that one of Champlain''s aims was to lay firm foundation for his peltry trade lends colour to the legend. Then comes a long period of two hundred years, when the Indian alone roamed the Tract, and the later time when "Prosperity Robinson" sends to Galt to inaugurate the Canada Company; his nickname develops with his title into "Goosey Goderich," and the height of land is about to be visited It is a rather strange coincidence that, owing to the many flocks of geese pastured in Goderich indiscriminately on street, common, or in house-yard, it early was dubbed "Goose Green." Canon Elwood, away from home, was once accosted by an old Goderich man--" Well, Elwood, and how''s Goose Green?" by the white man again. Seebach, set on the hill by Van Egmond, put his light in the one-pane square window and beckoned the traveller bound from the Line to...