Show or all old 11 town ou on azicri can soil Theirl the city ty is bulli built upon a rocky promontory formed by the junction or of ill the st charles and st rivers the highest bantli pant h at un abo southerly sout heily side 1 facing file st rii 0 o ice this side Is id alio the must moyt pro clitius and was originally about three hundred feet shove the water it II sloped gradually crA Lra dually oward the north till the elevation Is 1 ps noi more af pf eer than ano one hundred feet above the lower town tito the rc oeral form forin of tho the upper town resembles a triangle lr with each side about halla hair u tulle lullo in extent the iha baso base resting on tho the land side aide around the edge of this rock the wall of tho he city la Is built which Is about gienty ilya free feet arid and twenty alve high though lit in places pla cefi owing to the irre irregularity gularte gu larty of of it varies considerably from these th the 0 wall having beyn been bull built dr ll defence fonce was constructed or of course couri let upon scientific hence bonce tho the ramparts fire bru mationg tit in that archia te t u rat beat beauy iy ay ono one would see bee in inac A castle aa e lor fur ahll are arc 1 so 11 placed laced that when guns guna are I 1 mounted ald 1 d pi upon them they may com command I 1 1 tho h I 1 I 1 I 1 0 i t so thit the contains con numerous numer oui on glee equal to almost any number of degrees dee Urit lally lually hare thare wore three gates through tho vall malli leading to tn thi the lower town east ward and north ward and three leading westward out into nto the jhb country coi alry the three former have within a few years been razed eav ig g to obstruct obstruct a P sage from om the lower town the tareo lit att ter er still remain a arched ir ched gateways much the same la in point of strength as when they hey were beio unit first constructed but in point kint of beauty I 1 think they ibave have been recently very much improved they aro are named tinel ni stjohn pt john st louk and kent kites kates respectively the latter in honor of the duke of kent the tha father of queen victoria through st boull loul aja graci gf aci all ool vIvi to lo for broadway Bru adway the broadest in ili the city leads out into the country direct to tho the hit orlo plains offers hun ham which are about a tulle mile distant Nuth lug remains upon ahli plaid tu to day to tell the alstor visitor of the scenes that were once enacted here herd except awa a plain round round granite shaft eur surmounted by a helmet liet met 0 on n thomase the tho uasa base of if which la Is the iha following in inscription scrip tio here died wolfe viet victorious or I 1 0 us september 13 1769 11 returning return ing the wall by the he route we came cam 0 to the I 1 pla plains us w we w will attempt d a of this quaint old city travellers Trav ellers inform us ua that hut it has no re nea in the world save in two or three castled cities in the north ofearl of europe 0 find and perhaps a like number kimt situate e on olt the rhine the streets of this city are narrow angul angular dri circuitous and precipitous the cows that thai laid them out orin ally evidently possessed afar a far gr greater vitar knowledge of civil engineering titan than did the cows that laid out the older part of ahston ston no bus boston t on cowic cows could havu o arcome the ho difficulties these cows overcame probably one boason haason for the superior knowledge possessed bythe by the quebec cows cleala alea in the I 1 haidt that the boston cows had no such s uc nice PI aide places gesto to JUMP jamp on the southern side of 01 the cl city ty the he top of the will wall is in feet above tha file water alone this side stretches tarlia terrace a grand promenade feet in length averaging imore caora than feet in ili width lord Dul Duff ferla orla while governor general of the po 10 volition extended arid improver and adorned this delightful promenade from it the spectator hag the fine t view imaginable beneath is the beautiful harbor directly opposite southward the town of ot Lev Levison laon the heights beyond the town are three extensive battor batteries erected by the british ment atan on expense of to W the east thi the island of Orleans and the broad st 84 lawrence flowing around it to the tha north a picturesque unit lanil eight or ton on miles in width and many miles lit in extent dotted here and thero there with vil villager villi lagel igei lie inabit few due 1 harm firm buildings aud and hundred I 1 eb of f fields whit the th of th Is charal g uj I 1 com of the of summits extend far to 10 the north hurth and west rho elliden occupies the south west aegle of the upper town towa the highest lile heat point in the file vity ity the extreme height from aiom the 66 wt water ter to the top of the tha parapet is feet this ihla fortress in point of strength is said to be ba the second on the globe gibraltar being first it consists of three walls of solid maso masonry ory with spares spaces of pot par bapa baas forty or fitly if IY feet wide between either two each wall twenty leet feet high and twenty feet thick con strutted ted of hewn stone laid in ce ral alter the most approved plan 0 of military engineering it was has a natural fortress upon which the tha french during this long occupancy c c u eap exp expended e 1 vast sums to strengthen st r e u pah ty and m BO 0 far succeeded succeed eil that hat 1 its ho tinn the british from froin the heights of levis during three months in je summer bummer of 1759 was comparatively fruitless and general wolfe was obliged to abandon the be elega and resor t to stratagem th through rough which his surviving comrade comra dua 1 1 were enable to enter its wails in tri triumph u |