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the beautiful oibelisik raised in their honour by and during the govern- 

 ment of the Earl of Dalhousie (1837). The return of the anniver- 

 sary may be appropriated to a brief description of the mo-nument lately 

 erected by Lieutenant-General Lord Aylmer, while govemor-in-cliief 

 of the provinces, which completes the series of testimonials offered by 

 posterity to the memory of the devoted and the brave/^ 



After mentioning the monument to Wolfe and Montcalm and the 

 slab in the Chapel of the Ursuline Convent, "Honneur à Montcalm, 

 etc./' he continues: 



"A monument to Wolfe on the spot Where he died was alone 

 wanting. The exact spot was known to but few, while Ûie interest 

 attached to it was increased, by the lapse of time. 



" The last contemporary of the Battle was no more ^ and the sito 

 would in a few years have become a subject for conjecture. 



"Although the stone, whicih formed his death couch, had been 

 preserved in its original position, it had been sunk beneath the surface, 

 in order to protect it from pilgrims who came, not to enrich but to rob 

 the shrine, by carrying away as relics pieces of the rock, hallowed by 

 the death of Wolfe. 



" These considerations, it may be imagined, suggested the design 

 of erecting a monument on this spot to Lord Aylmer, 



"And as no accurate description of it has yet appeared, and as 

 the spot is iconstantly visited by strangers, the following particulars, 

 which may be depended upon as correct, will doubtless be interesting 

 to the public." 



" The monument lately erected by Lord Aylmer to the memory 

 of Wolfe, on the spot where he died, is situated in a field, the propeirty 

 of Hammond Gowen, Esq., between the house of C. Campbell, Esq., 

 and the race-course, and adjoining the Grande- Allée. The ground 

 necessary for the site was presented by Mr. Gowen to his Lordship for 

 the purpose; and the monument is distinctly seen from the road. 



" The monument is a truncated column, etc. The inscription, 

 which is deeply cut in the column, is brief and em.phatic, containing a 

 modest and delicate reference to that upon the slab in honour of Mont- 

 calm. 



" Here died Wolfe victorious ^ 



^ Mr. Jaimes Thamson died in 1830. He was in his 9Sth year when Lord 

 Dalhousie, on the 15th Nov., 1827, addressed him as follows: " We honour 

 you here as the companion in arms and a venerable living witness of the 

 fall of Wolfe; and do us the favour to bear witness on this oocasiion by the 

 imiallet in your hand." 



* In 1848, Sir Benjamin Durban erected the one inoav over it, burying 

 underneath the remains of the old one. A strong iron railing protects it. 



