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Rh The Citadel is accessible from the Public Gardens by way of Summer or Sackville Streets. The Wanderers' Club grounds. Camp Hill, a field used for drills and reviews, and Camp Hill Cemetery, the chief burying-ground of the city since the closing of St. Paul's, are all in this quarter. The campus of Dalhousie University is southeast of the Gardens. This, the largest of the seven Provincial universities, was named for the Earl of Dalhousie, a Scotch nobleman who became Governor-General of Canada. Previously he had served with Wellington in Spain, and held office as Governor of the Province. Dr. Akins' History of Halifax City records that in the spring of 1819 excavating was begun at the north end of the Parade for the foundation of Dalhousie College. The Legislature voted £2000 toward the expenses of building besides a sum of several thousand pounds which had accrued from port dues received during the tenure of Castine, Maine, by Halifax patriots in the War of 1812. As the college grew in scope, new buildings were raised on the large field now occupied. Allied with the college are schools of law, medicine, dentistry and engineering.

Sight-seeing carriages follow Morris Street past the new Anglican Cathedral, the attractive grounds of the General Hospital and the School for the Blind to Young Avenue, and pursue this somewhat pretentious thoroughfare to the gates of Point Pleasant Park, which occupies the extreme end of