The Republican journal., 1892-01-14

uflVe Lle1u lIOI Tile Dlodk pasture Oh
which they feed. Standing on the site of
the Citadel, now a large heap of earth,
we see away beyond the ocean, dotted
here and there by a white sail, and to the
westward the waters of the spacious Bay
Of Fabarey, where Pepperrell in 1I45 and
Wolfe in 1853 successfully landed their
troops after an ineffective attempt of the
French to stop them. Though it is easy
enough with the exercise of a little pa
thence and considerable knowledge of old
plans. to follow the line of the fortitica-
tons and place accurately the bastions and
batteries, we require great deal Of imagi-
nation to realize the existence of town,
holding some four thousand souls on this
deserted spot. Yet here was town with
broad and regular streets with parade
close to a fine citadel, containing the Gov
ernor' S residence. q cathedral, and a bomb
of wood. raised on high stone foundations,
but those OF the officials and richest mer-
chants were of hewn stone, in some cases
brought from France. The wood and
bricks were furnished in considerable
quantities by enteIprising merchants of
New England, who afterwards found it to
their profit to capture the fortress. Much
brandy and claret We're quietly smuggled
from the port for the use Of the rich. hos
pitable merchants and gentry of New York.
Besides the principal Church in the eta
del there was another connected with the
hospital OF st. Jean de Dieu, which was
IAN elegant and spacious structure all OF
stone OF all these buildings there ale
now only heaps of broken brick and pieces
of stone, discarded as worthless when great
quantities of building material We're car
ried away to Halifax, where it entered
standing. The old burying ground where
many Maine men We're inferred i'll I43-6,
when dysentery carried off a large number
of the Colonial troops, is a low piece of
land at the point called Rochefort, just
outside the Southern line of the fortitica-
lions. No stone OF simple monument has
ing of those brave fellows who left tie
workshops, the farms and the vessels of
New England. Sheep feed above their last
resting place. and their only requiem is the
dash of the surf on the rocky shore, the
cry of the sea gull as it wings its flight to
the waters beyond.
look, alone represe ii the ambition of France
century and half ago when she lad her
forts at Louishourg. on the st. Lawrence
and the great lakes OF the West. in the
valley of the Ohio and the Mississippi
on the shores Of the Gulf of Mexico. all of
them i'll fulthelance of her design to hem
in the thirteen colonies between the APP
palaclian range and the Atlantic and
eventually make them tributary to her
power. Nature has now resumed domin-
ion on the site Of the famous fortress,
sage OF the fleets that came once, richly
freighted, to the port. This is now moth
ing more than place Of memolies-of as
sociations which connect Cape Breton
with the most glorious episodes OF English
history. with times when the genius of
Pitt triumphed over France and Won for
England. India and America
THUS will memory often in dreams sub
sublime
Catch a glimpse of the days that are over
And signing, look back through the vista
Of time.
For the lons faded glorits thcy cover"