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— " There, on your right, I added, is the steep, winding 

 ascent to our famous Citadel, built on plans originated 

 about 1756, by the celebrated engineer de Lery and 

 submitted by the Eoyal Engineers, approved of by the 

 Duke of Wellington, and constructed, 1821-32, at a 

 cost of $25,000,000. Up to 1693, the French had not 

 thought necessary to fortify Cape Diamond ; in 1694, 

 St. Louis and St. John's gates were erected. In 1775, 

 Capts. Gordon and Mann, E. E., had drafted a plan for 

 a, temporary Citadel. In 1779, it was begun by Capt. 

 Twiss, E. E. In 1793, Capt. Fisher reported it had 

 gone to decay and applied at head-quarters for plans to 

 protect St. Louis and St. John's gates. 



Shortly after his arrival in Canada, Lord Dufferin 

 selected this very airy post for his summer, holiday 

 home after each Parliamentary recess. A noble terrace 

 and ball-room were since added ; Princess Louise, one 

 of Queen Victoria, daughters, and her consort of the 

 lorclly"house of Argyle, occupy it at the present moment. 

 Let us not intrude, at this late hour, on the privacy of 

 these cultured city guests. Her E. H. may possibly, at 

 this very instant, be engaged in painting, from the 

 Prince's Feather Bastion, — a gorgeous Canadian sunset 

 just as the sun god is giving his last kiss to the green 

 groves of Levis and dropping an expiring ray on the 

 chasm of placid waters 350 feet below, rushing their 

 wavelets to the ocean, whilst Lord Lome is revolving 

 in his own mind, the best means to secure lono^ life and 

 success to his pet creation, the Eoyal Society of Canada. 



Art and Literature, stalking hand in hand ; is this 

 not a winsome sight for you and me, my dear poet ? " 



But to revert to our grim, casemated citadel, who 

 now will indite the garrison chronicles of the hundred 

 and one dashing British regiments, previously quartered 

 there ? 



They too, had their days of scares and of dire alarms, 

 in 1837-8, when those rank rebels, the Chasseurs 



