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ENGIITEERING AND ARCHITECTURE. 



The enelosure, with the military trophies at the angles, will be executed in ac- 

 cordance with the original design, in the course of next summer, so as to have the 

 whole completed by the Anniversary of the Battle of Queenston, on the 13th Octo- 

 ber, when it is proposed to Inaugurate the Statue of General Brock with all due 

 ceremony. 



From the summit, a very extensive and beautiful view is obtained,— the high 

 lands in Pennsylvania being visible when the weather is favorable. 

 The following are the details of this Canadian Monument: — 

 The Column is of the Roman Composite Order. Its Pedestal stands on a platform 

 of an elevation of twenty-seven feet, at the angles of which are lions rampant, 

 supporting shields with the armorial bearings of the Hero. The sub-basement is 

 distinguished by plainness of character and great solidity, having on one of its 

 sides a plain polished granite slab, with a suitable inscription in letters of bronze. 

 The sub-basement is placed on a platform slightly elevated, within a dwarf wall 

 enclosure seventy-seven feet square, with a fosse around the interior ; at each 

 angle are placed military trophies in carved stone twenty feet in height. The en- 

 trance to the enclosure, and doorway to the interior of the Monument, will be on 

 the east side, giving access to a gallery, or corridor, round the inner pedestal, one 

 hundred and fourteen feet in extent, by five feet wide ; on the north and south 

 sides, in suitable vaults under the floor, are deposited the remains of General Brock, 

 and those of his Aid-de-Camp, Col. McDonnell. The gallery is lighted by circular 

 wreathed openings. The bold rocky scenery of the Queenston Heights which sur- 

 rounds the site of this Monument and the space immediately adjoining, together 

 with the close masses of dense foliage in picturesque clumps, as seen in connection 

 with it add not a little to the effect of the column. The pedestal is sixteen feet 

 nine inches square and thirty-eight feet in height, the die having on its pan- 

 nelled sides appropriate basso relievos. The plinth is enriched with lions' heads 

 and wreaths, continued round each side, with wreathed openings between each, to 

 give light to the interior. The column itself is ninety-five feet in height and ten 

 feet in diameter, fluted, and having an enriched base of laurel leaves entwined on 

 the lower torus ; the base of the shaft is enriched with palm leaves, upon which 

 the flutes terminate. The capital of the column is very appropriate. It is twelve 

 feet six inches in height ; on each face is sculptured a figure of Victory ten feet 

 six inches high, with extended arms over military shields, as volutes, having 

 on their outward angles lions' heads, helmets, &c, the spaces between the 

 acanthus being wreathed with palm leaves, somewhat after the example of a capital 

 of an antique column at Albano, near Rome. The enriched abacus is fifteen feet 

 square, in the angles of which will be spaces for persons to stand outside to view the 

 surrounding scenery, thus avoiding the unsightly appearance of iron railings. Upon 

 the abacus stands the cippus, of cast iron, galvanized, having within a chamber six 

 feet in diameter, for persons to stand in to view the magnificent scenery and inter- 

 esting objects which the commanding situation affords. Upon the cippus will 

 be placed the Statue of the Hero, now in process of execution in stone, sixteen feet 

 high, in proper military costume. From the gallery in the sub-basement a stair- 

 case of stone is continued to the summit. It is of capacious breath, of two hun- 

 dred and fifty steps, worked with a solid stone newel the entire height, lighted 

 by small loop-holes in the fluting of the column. The whole height of the Monu- 

 ment, including the Statue, will be 187 feet, executed wholly in Queenston stone. 



