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78 was given on the works to gangs of negroes who had been deported from Jamaica for insubordination to English rule. The "Maroons" were descended from the African slaves of Spanish West Indians who, upon England's seizing Jamaica, intrenched themselves among the hills. Though given generous grants of land and provisions, the black men revolted against life in Nova Scotia and after four years, during which they had been maintained at a cost of £100,000, they were transported to Sierra Leone in the land of their fathers.

At the entrance of the modern citadel are two guns used by the English at the second siege of Louisbourg. In times of peace, visitors may pass through the broad gate of the fortress, and saunter about the ramparts with a soldier as guide. Below the glacis is the Garrison Chapel to which the Imperial troops, which have now been withdrawn, used to march every Sabbath morning preceded by a band. The Dominion regulars still proceed with music and some ceremony to Sunday service in the city churches.

Facing the harbour from the top of George Street is a monstrous clock tower with a keeper's house for pedestal. The Duke of Kent had it erected as a memorial to Time, of whose worth he deemed the citizens unmindful. Like a squat ogre it frowns upon the town. Escape it one cannot, neither its ugliness nor its warning hands.