CANADIAN GUIDE BOOK. 75 accessary appointment.—Adjoining to the St. Louis Gate, and fronting to the Esplanade, is the Royal Engineer Office ; and in the rear are the spacious yard and workshops of the Royal Sappers and Miners, a detachment of which corps is always stationed in Quebec. The officers of the Royal Engineers have charge of the fortifications and of all military works.—The Government Laboratory is on the right hand of the road leading to the Citadel, opposite to the Royal Engineer Yard, and stands on the site of an old powder magazine, close to which the remains of General Montgomery were interred on January 4th, 1776. The following elegant peroration is from the pen of Professor Silliman, who visited Quebec in 1819 :— “ Quebec, at least for an American city, is certainly a very peculiar place. A military town—containing about twenty thousand inhabitants—most compactly and permanently built—environed, as to its most important parts, by walls and gates—and defended by numerous heavy cannon—garrisoned by troops having the arms, the costume, the music, the discipline, of Europe—foreign in language, features arid origin, from most of those whom they are sent to de fend—founded upon a rock, and in its highest parts overlooking a •great extent of country—between three and four hundred miles from the ocean—in the midst of a great continent and yet displaying fleets of foreign merchantmen in its fine capacious bay—and show ing all the bustle of a crowded sea-port—its streets narrow, popu lous, and winding up and down almost mountainous declivities— situated in the latitude of the finest parts of Europe—exhibiting in its environs the beauty of an European capital—and yet in winter smarting with the cold of Siberia— governed by a people of different language and habits from the mass of the population—opposed in religion, and yet leaving that population w ithout taxes and in the full enjoyment of every privilege, civil and religious. Such are the prominent features which strike a stranger in the city of Quebec !” The Toitrist will of course visit the Fall of Montmorenci, and, if an admirer of nature in her lovely grandeur, may be induced thereafter to extend his excursion to the Falls of St. Anne (a dis tance of upwards of twenty miles from Quebec), which many travel lers have pronounced unsurpassed in any quarter of the globe. For