68 who many years after fought a memorable duel in with Mr. Sweeny . The cause of the bloody affray originated at a fancy dress ball in the St. Louis Chateau. . . . On that fatal day probably a dense wood hid the combatants from public gaze. I cannot say more without perhaps saying too much, and I must leave the young who are curious to question their grand¬ fathers and their grandmothers about Holland Tree . I have said enough, I hope, to induce the reader to repeat with me, "Woodman spare that tree." This account of the fatal duel differs materially from that given by descen¬ dants of Major Holland . There is some doubt whether the duel was fought at , Quebec or some other point on the St. Lawrence , but it is certain that Captain Schoedde was the aggressor. Holland's Tomb near Quebec . ( Colonel Cockburn .) This sketch is a copy of one in the possession of Miss Marion I. Holland of Melbourne , P.Q. , which was copied from the original in an album of the late Mrs. Elizabeth Sewell of Quebec . Only one headstone is shown in this sketch. The Col. Cockburn 's Sketch of Holland's Tomb lone fir tree was struck by lightning from a cloudless sky so it was reported. There can be no doubt that at the time of Major Holland 's death, and for some years thereafter, the walls about the plot, the iron gate with the stone archway above and headstones within the enclosure, were all carefully maintained. Un¬ pardonable desecration occurred when the property passed into the hands of those who could have had no respect for agreements solemnly entered into with the Holland family. By Colonel Cockburn 's sketch the burial plot was rectangular and not circular, as stated by Le Moine. Miss Marion I. Holland received a letter from Miss Harriet von Iffland , dated at St . Michael's Rectory, in which she states that Wilson was a caretaker of the property and transferred it to O 'Kill Stuart, who assumed it with all its liabilities. She further states that Carbray (whoever he may be) remembers the burial place and that the wall about it was built of boulders. The entrance was through an archway high enough to permit a man walking beneath it and upright. Felix Carbray 's father John and uncle of Patrick held the property under twenty-one years' lease. Patrick was Celia's father, who saw one grave