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•Dry Dock, built of wood and oi)ene;l in 1884. It is 600 feet 

 long, 83 feet broad, with a depth of 25 feet on its sill at low 

 water. It i.s thus able to accommodate all but the very largest 

 steamers atioat. It cost $550,000. 



LUXATIC ASYLUM. 



Three uiilfs further out, on the "Waterford Bridge Road, is the 

 Lunatic Asylum, a handsome structure, beautifully situated and 

 .excellently managed. Visitors are admitted by an order from 

 the doctors in charge of the institution. The walk or drive to 

 it along the Castor's Valley, as the little brook is called, is very 

 pleasant. Victoria Park is passed on the right. 



CATHOLIC CATHEDRAL. 



There are many more objects of interest in the city. The 

 imost conspicuous building is the Roman Catholic Cathedral, 

 which occu])ies a commanding site on the summit of the hill 

 on which the city is built. It is in the form of a Latin Cross, 

 237 feet in length, and 180 fent wide across the transepts, with 

 two towers 138 feet in height. It is richly ornamented with 

 statuary, the iinest being " The Dead Christ," by Hogan, under 

 the altar, and tliose of St. .Jolm the Baptist and of the Virgin, 

 in front of the Cathedral. The view from the Cathedral grounds 

 is specially fine. Adjacent to it are the Bishoj)'s Palace, Saint 

 Bonaventure's College and a Convent. The whole group of 

 buihlings cost about $500,000. The general appearance is very 

 fine. 



CHURCH OF EXGLAXD CATHEDRAL. 



The Church of England Cathedral, about half way up the 

 slope, will wlieu completed be one of the finest ecclesiastical 

 buildings in British America. It was designed by Sir Gilbert 

 Scott, ami is in the early English style. Unfortunately it was 

 terribly injured in the great fire of 1892, only the bare walls 

 Ijeing left. The walls of the transept were not seriously injured 

 "but the arches were ruined. This portion of the Cathedral has 

 Xiow been roofed and the arches i-e.^tored, and it soon will be 



