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to a position on the entrance of Trinity Square, a few yards to the eastward, it was burnt, 

 eitlier accidentally or by the act of an incendiary. Mr. Hamilton, who was intending to con 

 vert the building into a home for himself and his family, gave the name of Teraulay Cottage— 

 the name by which the destroyed building had been known— tu tlie house for himself which he 

 put up in its stead. 



A quarter of a century sufficed to transform Dr. Macaulay's garden and grounds into a well- 

 peopled city district. The "fields," of which Walton spoke, have undergone the change which 

 8t. George's Fields and other similar spaces luive undergone in London : 

 St. George's Fields are fields no more ; 



The trowel supersedes the plough ; 

 Huge inundated swamps of yore 



Are changed to civic villas now. 

 The builder's plank, the mason's hod, 

 Wide and more wide extending still. 

 Usurp the violated sod. 

 The area which Dr. Macaulay's homestead immediately occupied now constitutes Trinity 

 Square — a little bay by the side of a great stream of busy human traffic, ever ebbing and flow- 

 ing, not without rumble and other resonances ; a quiet close, resembling, it is pleasant to 

 think, one of the Inns of Court in London, so tranquil despite the turmoil of Fleet Street ad- 

 joining. Trinity Square is now completely surrounded with buildings, nevertheless an aspiring 

 attic therein, in which many of these collections and recollections have been reduced to shape 

 has the advantage of commanding to this day a view still showing within its range some of tha 

 primitive features of the site of York. To the north an extended portion of the rising land 

 above Yorkville is pleasantly visible, looking in the distance as it anciently looked, albeit be- 

 held now with spires intervening, and ornamental turrets of public buildings, and lofty factory 

 flues : while to the south, seen also between chimney stacks and steeples and long solid archi- 

 tectural ranges, a glimpse of lake Ontario itself is procurable — a glimpse especially precious so 

 long as it is to be had, for not only recalling, as it does, the olden time when " the Lake " was 

 an element in so much of the talk of the early settlers — its sound, its aspect, its condition 

 being matters of hourly observation to them —but also suggesting the thought of the far-ofi" 

 outer ocean-stream — the silver moat that guards the fatherland, and that forms the horizon in 

 so many of its landscapes. To the far-off Atlantic, and to the misty isles beyond — the true 

 Insuhe Foriunatce — we need not name them — the glittering slip which we are still ijermitted to 

 see yonder is the highway — the route by which the fathers came — the route by which their 

 sons from time to time return to make dutiful visits to hearthstones and shrines never to be 

 thought of or named without affection and reverence. Of that other ideal 0(^ean-stream too, 

 and of that other ideal home, of which the poet speaks, our peep of Ontario may likewise to the 

 thoughtful be an allegorj% by the help of which 



In a season of calm weather. 



Though inland far we be. 



Our souls have sight of that immortal sea 



Which brought us hither ; 



Can in a moment travel thither — 



And see the children sport upon the shore. 



And hear the mighty waters rolling evermore ! 



XLVI.— YONGE STREET— FROM CARLETON STREET TO YORKVILLE. 

 In the grove which surrounded Sir James Macaulay's residence, Wykham Lodge, we had 

 down to recent years a fragment of the fine forest which lined Yonge Street, almost continuously 

 from Lot Street to Yorkville, some forty years since. The ruthless uprooting of the eastern 

 border of this beautiful sylvan relic of the past, for building purposes, was painful to witness, 

 however quickly the presence of rows of useful structures reconciled us to the change. The 

 trees which cluster round the great school buUding in the rear of these improvements will long, 

 as we hope, survive to give an idea of what was the primeval aspect of the whole iif the 

 neighbourhood. 



