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116 CANADIAN GUIDE BOOK, tion for principal, tutor, pupils, and domestics. Gardens and pleas ure-grounds are attached. A wing was subsequently erected, and the other will by-andby be added. The pupils receive an elemen tary mercantile or classical education. From the healthiness of the situation, from the general excellence of the Institution, and from the very moderate terms for board and iustruction in all the principal branches of education in the French, English,and Classical languages, it is much frequented by pupils from a distance, and among others by several from the United States. There are generally about one hundred students, most of whom are boarded in the establishment. Government has recognised its utility by granting numerous annual sums in its aid, and an act of incorporation, by which the benevolent founder has been appointed Principal during life.—The Chambly Ca nal crosses a wide unoccupied space beyond the village, which is call ed the Common. This work, which cost the Province an immense sum of money, does not derive a revenue sufficient for the defrayment of expenses. A little farther on stands the ancient fort of Chambly, a building that affords deep interest to such as take pleasure in reading the history of the old French wars. It is built of stone, and is about one hundred and eighty feet square. It was built originally by M. de Chambly, shortly before the conquest of Canada by the British. During the revolutionary times it was the subject of a siege by the continental troops. Before the last American war a detachment of about two companies of infantry usually formed its garrison. On the commencement of hostilities, however, large bodies of troops were assembled here, and an extensive depot formed. During the various operations from 1812 to 1814 a very considerable force was stationed in its neighbourhood, and in the latter year an encamp ment was formed, containing upwards of six thousand men. On the rising ground adjoining the Fort were erected eighteen barracks, magazines, storehouses, and other buildings, some of which, after the restoration of peace, were dismantled and disposed of, whilst the rest were allowed to fall into almost total disuse. The insurrection ary movements in 1837 and 1838 in the immediate vicinity induced the Government to again extend the military establishment about Chambly, by the erection of new barracks and other necessary builds