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CANADIAN GUIDE BOOK. 73 is but a few feet high. The black artillery, as Professor Silliman observes, “ look like beasts of prey crouching and ready to leap upon their victims.”—Close to the Bishop’s Palace, long used as the place where the Provincial Legislature met previously to the re union of the Canadas, is I’rescott-Gate with its Guard-house. Under its arch is the principal avenue to the Lower Town by Mountain Street. It is protected by powerful defences, and by works which connect it on the right with the former Castle of St. Louis. Here the stone-rampart forms part of that ruin, and is supported by but tresses built upon the solid rock, and immediately overlooking the Lower Town, at an elevation of more than two hundred feet. To the south-west side of the Castle is the Government Garden, one hun dred and eighty yards long by seventy broad, within which a small bat tery commands part of the harbour. In front the fortifications are continued three hundred yards, until they reach the foot of the Glacis Or acclivity towards Cape Diamond, crowned at that point by the Round Tower and Flagstaff.—The extent of the Ramparts towards the land-side, from the south-west angle of the citadel to the cliff above the St. Charles, is stated to be eighteen hundred and thirty-seven yards. Within this rampart is the Esplanade, a level space covered with grass, between St. Louis and St. John Gates. Here are mount ed the several guards on duty at the Citadel and other public build ings each forenoon, except Sabbath, at eleven o’clock ; and here occasional parades of the Garrison take place, particularly on the Queen's birth-day. The circuit of the Fortifications enclosing the Upper Town is two miles and three quarters ; the total circumfer ence outside the Ditches and space reserved by Government, on which no house can be built on the west side, is about three miles. —Generally speaking, the City may be said to be entirely surround ed by a lofty and strong wall of hewn stone, constructed with elegance as well as with regard to durability. The castellated ap pearance produced by the battlements, ditches, embrasures, round towers and gates, adds much to its grand and imposing effect from without. There are five Gates, opening in different directions to the country, the suburbs, and the Lower Town. Towards the south-west are St. John’s and St. Louis’ Gates, protected by out- G