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Rh occupy a height on the skirts of the town that is shaded by fine elms and overlooks the river-harbour and meadows burdened with opulent farms. Many of the 15,000 volumes contained in the Library were contributed by English patrons when the college was first chartered, and form a collection of great value. The Chapel communion plate includes a chalice and a paten over two hundred years old.

The university offers courses in Arts, Theology, Science and Law. The Quinctilian and the Haliburton Societies are student organisations that are imbued with tradition. The college roll of about a hundred pupils includes the names of a few young women. Among famous alumni are Judge Haliburton, Sir John Inglis, defender of Lucknow, Sir Fenwick Williams, hero of Kars, and litterateurs of our day well known in the United States and Canada.

"Edgehill," a school for girls founded in 1890, whose faculty is composed of English mistresses, is near the Parish Church and the Boys' Collegiate School.

Judge Thomas Haliburton could scarcely have found a more congenial spot than this in which to conjure the characters whose banter and irony, wit and shrewd judgments piqued and amused the New and Old Worlds four score years ago. Canada's first illustrious man of letters was born in Windsor, shortly after the founding of Kings