e picture altogether was as beautiful as it was
new to me."--_Note in Moore's Epistles, Odes, &c_.

"At Queenstown the battle was fought in which General Brock
fell, and the inhabitants point out a thorn bush at the bottom
of the heights, where it is said that he received his mortal
wound. His career was a short but a brilliant one; and had the
direction of the affairs of the Upper Province, after his
death, been characterized by an equal degree of courage,
prudence, and humanity, a very different series of subsequent
events would have claimed the attention of the
historian."--_Duncan's Travels in the United States and Canada,
in 1818 and 1819_.

"Close to the spot where we landed in Canada, there stands a
monument to the gallant General Brock, who was killed during
the battle of Queenstown, in the act of repelling an invasion
of the frontier by the Americans, during the late war.... The
view from the top of the monument extended far over Lake
Ontario, and showed us the windings of the Niagara, through the
low and woody country which hangs like a rich green fringe
along the southern skirts of that great sheet of
water,"--_Captain Basil Hall's Travels in North America, in
1827 and 1828_.

Travelling in the state of New York, the author observes: "The late Sir
Isaac Brock was, by some accident, mentioned. The canal agent spoke of
him in terms of great respect, as the best commander the British had
ever sent to Canada--equally regretted on both sides of the St.
Lawrence...."

"From Niagara Falls we proceeded by the stage first to
Queenstown, (seven miles,) near which a monument has been
erected to the memory of Sir Isaac Brock, from the top of
which, about 120 feet high, there is a noble view of Lake
Ontario and the adjoining country, and thence to the village of
Newark, (seven miles,) formerly called Fort George, on the
Niagara river."--_Stuart's Three Years in America._

"Immediately above Queenstown stands Brock's monument, on the
heights where the battle was fought in which that hero was
killed. His body was removed to it from Fort George, in 1824.
The view from this fine column is probably the most beautiful
in Upper Canada."--_M'Gregor's British America_, vol. ii.

"Seven miles south of Fort George, and at the foot of the
romantic heights of the same name, which have bec