[261] Knox's Journal. Vol. I, p. 179.
[262] The Bureau was at the foot of Mountain Hill, next to (the Old
Neptune) Chronicle Office.
[263] For many years, it was the practice to close the gates of Quebec at
gun fire (10 p.m.) for carriages, leaving the wicket open only for
pedestrians, in the troublous days of 1837-8, the wicket at times was
closed.
[264] Mr. Jean Tache, the first owner of the "Old Neptune Inn," and of a
poetical turn, wrote the first Canadian poem, intituled Tableau de la
Mer.
[265] History of French Dominion in North and South America. - Jeffery,
London, 1760, page 9.
[266] Montgomery Place, on the Hudson, is now the residence of Mrs. Ed.
Livingston, a country seat of unrivalled beauty. - "It is," says Downing,
"one of our oldest improved country seats, having been originally the
residence of General Montgomery, the hero of Quebec. On the death of his
widow, it passed into the hands of her brother, Edward Livingston, Esq.,
the late Minister in France." - page 31.
[267] Major Samuel Holland was also a first rate Engineer.
