TOURING QUEBEC AND THE MARITIMES 89 a square oak timber blockhouse capable of holding sixty men for the defence of the bridge. The blockhouse was unfortunately allowed to go to ruin, and was finally de¬ molished in 1882. We saw a model of it in the museum. Near the Fort stands St . Luke's Anglican Church, con¬ taining a magnificent Book of Common Prayer, bound in red-tooled morocco, and embellished with gold and pre¬ cious stones. It was a gift of King George IV . We saw the well sunk by the French. It was their main source of fresh water supply during a siege. Next we visited the Officers' Quarters, built about 1798 by order and largely under the personal supervision of Edward, Duke of Kent, the present King's great-grand¬ father, when he was Commander -in- Chief of the British forces at Halifax . It is a quaint building with three tall chimneys and thirty fireplaces. It is being used now as a museum, in which we saw a very fine collection of curios and objects of historic interest, such as,—coats of mail and armour from the time of Cromwell; the old picture,— a wood cut, portraying the rejoicing on the Strand, Old London, after the signing of the Treaty of Utrecht , which made Annapolis Royal and Nova Scotia permanently British; an old 1812 clock; several trophies of the late war; the piece of wood from Champlain 's birthplace in France; the door of the first church built by the returned Acad- ians after their expulsion, etc. In the Acadian room we saw the 1720 missal from which Mass was first said; the old willow dishes and the pictures of Acadian women. We were interested in the Micmac dolls, with which the children used to play in the eighteenth century, and in the brass door knob and pewter teapot from the home of Thomas Chandler Haliburton , whose chief fame rests