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 more towards cementing our union with the mother country than any event or circumstance since the existence of the province. Of this our leading men are aware, and are careful to seize every opportunity of preserving recollections so productive of good effects." The height of the column, which commands a view of the surrounding country for about fifty miles, is from the base to the summit one hundred and twenty-seven feet, and from the level of the Niagara river, which runs nearly under it, four hun- dred and seventy-seven feet. The following inscription is engraven on this splendid tribute to the unfading remembrance of a grateful people : —

UPPER CANADA

HAS DEDICATED THIS MONUMENT

TO THE MEMORY OF THE LATE

MAJOR-GENERAL SIR ISAAC BROCK, K. B.

PROVISIONAL LIEUT.-GOVERNOR AND COMMANDER OF THE FORCES

IN THIS PROVINCE,

"WHOSE REMAINS ARE DEPOSITED IN THE VAULT BENEATH.

OPPOSING THE INVADING ENEMY,

HE FELL IN ACTION NEAR THESE HEIGHTS,

ON THE 13th OCTOBER, 1812,

IN THE 43rd YEAR OF HIS AGE,

REVERED AND LAMENTED

BY THE PEOPLE WHOM HE GOVERNED,

AND DEPLORED BY THE SOVEREIGN

TO WHOSE SERVICE HIS LIFE HAD BEEN DEVOTED.

��February, 1832.

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