chamber above. 
ANTIQUITIES, 
the castle. This appears to have 
had its seat at the top of that tower, 
like the necessaries at the top of the 
houses in the crowded parts of Lon- 
don; and to have had its pipe, like 
those, and like our water-closets at 
present, leading down to the ground. 
The pipe terminated, together with 
its accompanying chimney, on the 
flat summit of the tower. It then 
went down in the substance of the 
thick wall, into the earth below the 
dungeon. ‘Three of its sides are 
stili preserved, by the preservation 
of the chimney, and of the two walls 
without ;, while the fourth side is 
gone, with the rest of the building. 
It has accordingly been plastered up, 
with the chimney itself, in the bed- 
lt has also been 
walled up in the: cellar or dungeon 
below. | And, on the north side of 
this wall, appears to haye been what 
one ‘should naturally expect in a 
dungeon, another place that has 
been equally walled up, and once 
formed a collateral privy for the 
prisoners: The grand receptacle 
below, I suppose, was washed every 
tide through an opening in the foun- 
dation ; and, by a dock which was 
cut in the beach, the latter of which 
ran up then to the very walls, and 
continued running up more than 
half the way, within the memory of 
the present generation. Immedi- 
ately on the west side of this, and 
connected with it, is another chim- 
ney, of stone, shooting up in the 
same substance ef the wall, but hay- 
ing a different funnel. The fire- 
place of the chimney is very large, 
and shews the room belonging to it 
to have been very ample. Above 
also, and at a good height for an 
ancient building, in Cornwall, is the 
water-tuble of it, being a channel 
cut in the face of the wall, for the 
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reception of the end ofa roof. This 
continues for a considerable way on 
tbe north, and shews the roof to 
haye been long and sloping. On 
the southern side, it goes off much 
sharper, and then is lust in the top 
of the wall. And from all, and 
from the yicinity of this building to 
the dungeon, | suppose it to have 
heen the great hall of the castle; 
the room in which the baronial 
court was held, and the criminals of 
the dungeon were tried. The hearth 
of this chimney yet remains, com- 
posed of several stones, cemented 
together. But the chimney, itself, 
has been lately contraéted, repaired, 
and provided with an oven at one 
side; for a building that has been 
ere¢ted in the room of the hail, that 
had been divided into two dwellings, 
and was approached by a flight of 
stéps, a narrow access, from the 
present wharfs below. ‘The foun- 
dations of the hall also still remain 
in the ground, above a yard in 
height, and three or four yards in 
length, linmg with the solid and 
massy angle of the dungeon; but 
much less massy and solid than that. 
Between these two buildings rose up 
the round tower, ‘This was so large 
in the eyes of Mr. Tonkin, that it 
seemed, at first, to have been ‘* the 
body of the whole,” and appeared, 
at last, as *¢ the biggest and loftiest’”” 
of them all. Just above the peaked 
point of the water-table, and on the 
north side, still are seen the evident 
relics of a Jarge arch. This must 
have been construéted for support- 
ing the tower, and have been, there- 
fore, accompanied with a similar 
arch, on each of the three other 
sides. Resting on all, and risng — 
about ten feet higher than the pre- 
sent remains, was the platform of 
the round tower, having two chim- 
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