A tall obelisk, built rather precariously of rubble, stands on a rabbit-infested mound in the park of “Montreal,” in a vista opening from the house, and is itself surrounded by weird pine-trees. It bears long inscriptions reviewing those military operations. One side is dedicated to a “most able statesman” (by whom William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, is indicated), and another commemorates the meeting here of Amherst with his two younger brothers—John, Admiral of the Blue, and William, Lieutenant-General. It was an era when England was fighting all the world, and had need of such commanders. The long list of military successes is stupendous: Dedicated to that most able Statesman during whose Administration Cape Breton and Canada were conquered, and from whose Influence the British Arms derived a Degree of Lustre unparallell’d in past Ages. Fort Levi surrendered 25^{th} August 1760 Isle au Noix abandoned 28^{th} August 1760 Montreal surrendered and with it all Canada and Ten French Battalions lay’d down their Arms 8^{th} Sept. 1760 S^t. John’s, Newfoundland retaken 18^{th} Sept. 1762. Louisbourg surrendered and Six French Battalions Prisoners of War, 26^{th} July 1758 Port du Quesne taken possession of 24^{th} Nov. 1758 Niagara surrendered 25^{th} July 1759 Tonderoga[2] taken possession of 26^{th} July 1759 Crown Point taken possession of 4^{th} August 1759 Quebec capitulated 18^{th} Sept. 1759. To commemorate the providential and happy meeting of three Brothers on this, their Paternal Ground on the 25^{th} January 1764 after a six Years glorious War in which the three were successfully engaged in various Climes, Seasons and Services. [2] _I.e._ Ticonderoga. XVI The long, long ascent to Sevenoaks, which crowns a ridge seven hundred feet above the sea-level, does not lack beauty, lined as it is for a considerable distance with hedgerow elms. But it puts on another kind of beauty at night, for as you come past the railway-station, and look down in the darkness upon the galaxy of red and green signal lights, it seems like a lavish Arabian Nights display of rubies and emeralds spread out there, in the black cutting.