Montcalm and Wolfe . evis. — The Alarm. — Sortieof the English. — Rash Determination of Murray. —Battle of — Retreat of the English. — Levisbesieges Quebec. — Spirit of the Garrison. — Peril ofTHEIR Situation. — Relief. — Quebec saved. — Retreat ofLevis. — The News in England. The fleet was gone; the great river was left a soli-tude; and the chill days of a fitful November passedover Quebec in alternations of rain and frost, sun-shine and snow. The troops, driven by cold fromtheir encampment on the Plains, were all gatheredwithin the walls. Their own artillery had so batteredthe plac

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Montcalm and Wolfe . evis. — The Alarm. — Sortieof the English. — Rash Determination of Murray. —Battle of — Retreat of the English. — Levisbesieges Quebec. — Spirit of the Garrison. — Peril ofTHEIR Situation. — Relief. — Quebec saved. — Retreat ofLevis. — The News in England. The fleet was gone; the great river was left a soli-tude; and the chill days of a fitful November passedover Quebec in alternations of rain and frost, sun-shine and snow. The troops, driven by cold fromtheir encampment on the Plains, were all gatheredwithin the walls. Their own artillery had so batteredthe place that it was not easy to find shelter. TheLower Town was a wilderness of scorched and crum-bling walls. As you ascended Mountain Street, theBishops Palace, on the right, was a skeleton of tot-tering masonry, and the buildings on the left were amass of ruin, where ragged boys were playing at see- A View of the Bishops House, and the Ruins of theUpper Town. ^v.\\ Ao i\<\\\A v\\ \ -AWkj ^X^nl.

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