A GENERAL VIEW OF QUEBEC.—By Rich. Short. After Siege of 1759

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The book containing this journal is an ordinary pocketmemorandum or account book measuring 6 x 4¼ inches andcovered with split calf. The journal opens the day of theauthor's capture, and closes on the day he receives orders atQuebec to prepare to leave for Boston. The author's name isnowhere to be found in the book, and several pages at thebeginning have been cut out, evidently by the original owner.The journal was found among the papers of the late J. Gradden,a benevolent merchant of Quebec who rendered considerable aidto the American prisoners of war confined there on prisonships. The journal was no doubt presented to Mr. Graddenby its author as a return for kindnesses. Mr. Gradden's son,the late Chas. Gradden of Kilmarnock, gave it to Sir JamesM. LeMoine, the venerable Historian of Quebec, who in turnpresented it to me with the understanding that I would editand print it.

Although the author's name is not attached to the journalit bears unmistakable evidence of having been written by Surgeon'sMate James Reynolds who was deputed by SurgeonGeneral Edwards of Gen. Hull's army to the charge of thesick on the two vessels that were dispatched from Maumee to[4]Detroit, but which were captured at Fort Malden (Amherstburg)by the British. Lossing, in his "Pictorial Field Book ofthe war of 1812" says that the schooner conveying the sick incharge of Reynolds escaped and reached Detroit, and that theDr. Reynolds of this expedition was killed at the attack onDetroit by a cannon ball. There is a mistake somewhere asthe author of this journal says that he was in charge of theCuyahoga conveying the