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[Footnote 115: It was a Tuscan column on a rustic pedestal, with a pedestal for a statue; the diameter of the base of the column was seventeen feet six inches, and the abacus of the capital was surrounded with an iron railing. The centre shaft, containing the spiral wooden staircase, was ten feet in diameter.]

[Footnote 116: We speak in the past tense, because the column, as will be seen in the sequel, was so much injured in 1840 as to require its reconstruction.]

[Footnote 117: Howison's Sketches of Upper Canada. London, 1821.]