Train Department, was removed some time ago being no longer used. At one time several hundred escaped slaves found shelter under the British flag, and here are buried many of these dusky Africans but one white child was buried here in 1832 that of the above mentioned John Oakley who was a teacher and preacher.

Here too is buried a hero whose name should not be forgotten though it is unrecorded in marble or granite. Herbert Holmes, a teacher and exhorter who organized a band of colored men of several hundreds to surround the jail and prevent the return of Mosely, an escaped slave from Kentucky, who was by law ordered to be given up. The civil and military authorities were called out soldiers, constables, sheriff, the Riot Act read. The prisoner escaped but Holmes and Green were shot and lie buried here, having given their lives to save their brother from slavery. Were not they heroes indeed, and should not their names be commemorated?

METHODIST GRAVEYARD.

This congregation is also a century old.,

Here is found a monument to John Boyd who died here in 1885, aged 85. He had been a teacher in the Old Blue (Grammar) School of Toronto and was the father of Sir John Boyd, whose son has given his life in South Africa. Here are buried John Eedson and Salome Crane his wife of U. E. Loyalist birth from Nova Scotia, George Varey who played the bass viol in the church before the days of organs or melodeons.

Two old grey stones show burials here previous to any in St. Andrew's or St. Vincent de Paul.

"Sarah Laurence died 1825, aged 64. Gideon Howell died 1827, aged 22.

Here in the silent tomb beneath this miry sod

Lies one who bore the Cross and trusted in his God
Farewell dear wife and friends and my dear little son
My work is finished and the prize is won."

FORT NIAGARA

Two graveyards on the opposite side of the river were visited and here were found several inscriptions interesting to us.

In the military graveyard of Fort Niagara, that post which has had such an eventful history, having been in the hands of French, British, Indians, Americans, is found a singular trace of the American occupation of Fort George in 1813. A young

Frenchman, perhaps a son of one of those of that nationality who helped the Thirteen Colonies to gain their independence.

"Ici repose Marie Vincent Boisaubin Lieutenant et adjutant daus le regiment d'artillerie legere des Etats Unis, decede au Fort George le 13 aout 1813 a l'age de 22. ans Ami fidele, fils tendre et sincere comment nons consoler d'une perte si severe." A monument bears this comprehensive inscription.

"Erected to the memory of unknown soldiers and sailors of the United States, killed in action or dying of wounds in this vicinity during the war of 1812."

Here were buried in the precincts of the fort but so far the spot is unknown and unmarked, two British officers, killed at the taking of the fort, 25th July, 1759. In the diary of Sir William Johnson, given in Stone's life of that distinguished man are these words : Today buried Gen. Prideaux and Col. Johnson in the chapel with great form, I was the chief mourner.' Should not some memorial be erected to these two British officers who died in adding a page to Britain's roll of fame?

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John Ross Robertson who has done so much to clear up many pages of Canadian history has lately unearthed in England a map showing the position of the chapel in what is now the parade ground, and Peter A. Porter of Niagara Falls. N. Y., in an article in the Buffalo Express, has reproduced this so that one may almost pace off the distances and fix the spot.

LEWISTON.

Here too in a beautiful well kept graveyard near the Presbyterian church are traces of the contest of a century ago.

"In memory of the high respect and esteem which MajorGeneral Stephen Van Rensselaer bore to Capt. George Nelson of the VI U.S. Regiment of Infantry, who on the 13th Oct., 1812, in the XXXVII year of his age feil in the attack upon Queenston, U.C., this monument is erected, Feb. 22nd, 1813.

"Here sleeps a soldier, here a brave man rests"

The following shows the influence of a wife over a husband: "Sacred to the memory of Nancy. consort of Fitz James Hotchkis,

Nancy be thou my guide to point the road
That leads far hence to yonder blest abode.
Grant me her faith thou good thou great most high,
Let me like Nancy live like Nancy die."

It is difficult now to know what crime committed by Great

Britain is referred to in the following lines.

"In memory of Alexander Miller who died Oct. 13th, 1828, aged 62, a native of Dundee, Scotland."

Far from his country and hls native skies,
Here mouldering in the dust poor Miller lies.
He loved his country, loved that spot of earth
Which gave a Wallace, Bruce and Dunca birth,
But when that country dead to all but gain,
Bowed her base neck and hugged tho oppressed chain,
He viewed the approaching event with many a sigh,
He crossed the wide waves and here untimely died.'

Perhaps the Sutherland evictions are meant.
Of Miss Mary Attwater, who died in 1815, it is said.

"She needs no verse her virtues to record,
She lived and died a servant of the Lord.'

Another stone has the startling question,

"See is gone, but where?"

Another point in which the history of the two countries touch is found here. A broken tcmbstone formerly upright, now lying

flat, is that of

"Ashbel Sage, born 1777, died 1855. He was the pilot and guide who conducted the American army to Queenston Heights in the battle on the morning of the 13th October, 1813."

There was formerly a daguerreotype of this veteran inserted in the stone, but this has disappeared long since.

Here too, lie Thomas Hustler and his wife Catharine, characters used by the novelist Cooper in the Spy as Sergeant Hollister and Be.ty Flannigan.

THE HAMILTON GRAVEYARD.

The Hamilton residence in Quesnston is a fine stone building on an eminence having the old colonial pillars and the family burying plot is on the property, surrounded by a low stone wall, enclosing beautiful trees.

The Hon, Robert Hamilton, born in Scotland, and whose name we find so often as entertaining guests in Simcoe's time, died in 1809. aged and is buried here. This spot has to us a pathetic interest, since here for a year rested the remains of Ger.. Sir Isaac Brock and his brave young adjutant, McDonnell, who were four times buried. First at Fort George where the bodies lay for twelve years, till the first monument was erected at Queen

ston Then when the shattered shaft was taken down, the bodies were removed to the Hamilton burying plot till the vault of the present monument was ready in 1853.

One inscription reads:

"Sacred to the memory of Robert Hamilton. born at Fort Niagara, 1787, died 1856. Mary Bigger, his wife, born at Dumtries, Scotland, 1790."

Alexander Hamilton died in 1839, aged 45. This must have been Sheriff Hamilton, whose death it is said was hastened by the shock to his system from having to perform the office of hangman at Niagara jail, no hangman was to be found and the Sheriff according to law had himself to perform the revolting duty. In an account of a prisoner confined in Niagara jail for his share in the rebellion, this is confirmed.

A large altar tomb commemorates a member of the wellknown Dickson family. He was a merchant in Queenston and carried on an extensive business there.

"Sacred to the memory of Thomas Dickson, born in Dumfries, Scotland, who died in 1825, aged 50, also Eliza his wife, died 1802,"

Here again occurs an important name in the early history of Our country.

"Hannah, wife of Wm. Jarvis, Secretary of the Province of U. C., died 1845, aged 84.

Shed not for her the bitter tear,
Nor give the heart to vain regret,
"Tis but the casket that lies here,

The gem that filled it sparkles yet."

Another. "Robert Hamilton, lies here, born 1808, died 1868," As the Hon. Robert Hamilton was married twice and had a large family of eight sons, the family connection is large and there are many names to be found here from intermarriages, as Tench, Duff, Durand, Mewburn, Gourlay.

Here lies buried Capt. John Humphrey Tench, late of H.M. 87th and 61st Regts, who died Xmas. 1851, also Maria Tench, wife of above, also Margaret Carruthers, widow of Major Carruthers, late H.M. 55th Westmoreland Regt., and Katherine Hamilton, wife of F. B. Tench, and Eliza Hamilton. wife of J. T. Townsend.

The family name has been well preserved, as the city of Hamilton thus derived its name, and the city of St. Catharines was named in 1809 from Catharine, the second wife of Hon. Robert Hamilton. The Hon. John Hamilton's residence, called Glencairn, was about two miles below Queenston, while that of

Dr. Hamilton, another brother, was above the mountain. The Hon. John Hamilton, who has been called the father of Canada's inlaud marine and was long honorably connected with the shipping of Lake Ontario is buried at Kingston.

BROCK'S MONUMENT.

This noble shaft, says a late writer, is perhaps the finest isolated column, all things considered, in the world, 200 ft high, the height of the figure 17 ft., and the situation unsurpassed, commanding a view of river, lake and plain ; at some seasons of the year the varied colors of brown ploughed land, purple vineyards, the tender green of its wheat or brilliant crimson of the "maple forests ail aflame," and the somber pine woods give the ennuied tourist at last a new experience,

The first monument was erected in 1824 and shattered with a gunpowder explosion by the miscreant Lett in 1840, the present begun in 1853 was finished in 1856. An immense meeting was held in 1840 on the Heights to devise means to replace the monument destroyed, ten steamers bore representatives from Kingston, Cobourg, Hamilton, Toronto, and ascended the river in procession while cheering crowds on the bank showed their enthusiasm. Eloquent speecees were made by distinguished men, nineteen motions afforded opportunity to twice as many speakers as movers and seconders. The first monument was erected by a grant from the Provincial parliament, the present by voluntary contributions of the militia and Indian warriors of the province. A grant from Parliament was given to lay out the grounds. The armorial bearings of the hero are supported by lions rampant seven feet in height, the motto Vincit Veritas. On the north face the inscription reads:

"Upper Canada has dedicated this monument to the memory

of the late

MAJOR-GENERAL SIR ISAAC BROCK, K. B.,

Provincial Lieut. Governor and Commander of the forces in this Province, whose remains are deposited in the vaults beneath. Opposing the invading enemy he fell near these heights on the 13th October, 1812, in the 43rd year of his age, revered and lamented by the people whom he governed and deplored by the sovereign to whose services his life had been devoted."

On a brass plate within the column is an inscription giving an account of the different burials and on another a notice of