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 Sonftge house, but no church has hitherto been erected." — Five Years in Canada, by E. A. Talbot.

NoTE.-^-Brockville was originally named Elizabeth Town in compliment to the general's mother, and the township or county, in which the village is situated, is still called Elizabeth.^-ED.

No. 15. Extract from a Description of St. Paul's Cathedral.

" In the western ambulatory of the south transept is a tabular monument to the memory of Sir Isaac Brock, by the same artist (Westmacott).

" A military monument, on which are placed the sword and helmet of the deceased ; a votive record, supposed to have been raised by his companions to their honored commander.

" His corpse reclines in the arms of a British soldier, whilst an Indian pays the tribute of regret his bravery and humanity elicited.

ERECTED AT THE PUBLIC EXPENSE

TO THE MEMORY OF

MAJOR-GENERAL

SIR ISAAC BROCK,

WHO GLORIOUSLY FELL

ON THE 13th OF OCTOBER,

M.DCCC.XII.

IN RESISTING AN ATTACK

ON

QUEENSTOWN,

IN UPPER CANADA.

No. 16.

"Anniversary of the Battle of Queenston, and the Re4nterment of the late much -lamented Major- General Sir Isaac Brock.

" There is something so grand and imposing in the spectacle of a nation's homage to departed worth, which calls for the exercise of so many interesting feelings, and which awakens so many sublime contemplations, that we naturally seek to perpetuate the memory of an event so pregnant with instruction, and so honorable to our species. It is a subject that in other and in older countries has frequently exercised the pens, and has called forth all the descriptive powers of the ablest writers.* But here it is new ; and for the first

and character of the two warriors) that fine passage by the splendid historian
 * It is impossible here to forget (however different were the circumstances

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