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Active; there is something so gay and festive in the appearance of King
George II. and Queen Caroline, so courtly and sprightly, so graceful and
amiable, that one is tempted to exclaim: "Bless the painter! what a
genius he had!" And now, after taking a look at Dalhousie College with
the parade in front, and the square town-clock, built by his graceless
Highness the Duke of Kent, let us climb Citadel Hill, and see the
formidable protector of town and harbor. Lively enough it is, this great
stone fortress, with its soldiers, swarming in and out like bees, and
the glimpses of country and harbor are surpassingly beautiful; but just
at the margin of this slope below us, is the street, and that dark
fringe of tenements skirting the edge of this green glacis is, I fear
me, filled with vicious inmates. Yonder, where the blackened ruins of
three houses are visible, a sailor was killed and thrown out of a window
not long since, and his shipmates burned the houses down in consequence;
there is something strikingly suggestive in looking upon this picture
and on that. But if you cast your eyes over yonder magnificent bay,
where vessels bearing flags of all nations are at anchor, and then let
your vision sweep past and over the islands to the outlets beyond, where
the quiet ocean li