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between them, and shews them to 
have been only ten or eleven feet in 
width. The well, projecting with its 
broad and arched back into the rooms, 
though it was probably covered then, 
asitnow.is, with the level ofthe floor ; 
shews us the designation of the rooins, 
The kitchen of the castle ocen- 
pied the western half of this north 
side, with its scullery at the western 
end of it. And the northerly or back 
wall now shows itself very tall, very 
Jong, and very ragged, as it has 
been skinned of its facing stones, 
vor the construétion, of houses ip 
the ‘village. It extends to the-very 
limit of the castle-ground, easterly, 
failing a litile in its upper parts to- 
wards the end, but still preserving 
its original length in its foundations. 
There the end of it coincides with 
another wall, that appears by the 
dungeon ; that constitutes the east- 
erly side of the, dungeon. itself ; 
comes out a little to the right of the 
door in the well-house ; and ran on 
within these six or seven years, and 
the slighter because of the fall in 
the ground there, to meet the high 
wall above, and ‘a be the back wall 
of the eastern range of rooms. A 
part of it then tell down with age ; 
and the breadth in it has been left 
unrepaired, as it opens a new road 
of access to the houses under the 
cliff. We have thus made the cir- 
cuit of the castle-court. We have 
noted the disposition of the parts 
where we had any notes to direét 
us. We have also pointed out the 
position of two of the towers. 
Let us now note the position of two 
more. One, of course, was over 
the gate of entrance ; another was 
over an opposite gate on the east, I 
suppose, for the way into what was 
then the garden of the castle. A 
kitchen-garden, I believe, was all 
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that was then aimed at: and this 
Jay, I doubt not, upon the ground 
running parallel on the east; 
which has been, equally with the 
castle area, levelled appavently by 
the hand of art; and which, how- 
ever, had no part of the castle upon 
it, as the terminating walls shew, 
and as the non-appearance of any 
stones, above or under the ground, 
confirms. We have now four of 
the seven towers accounted tor :— 
bat where shall. we find the other 
three? We must find them in a 
second court, of which tradition has 
lost nearly all. remembrance. It 
only said, some, years ago, to me, 
that the castle extended to the north 
of the road, . Yet the evidence is too 
clear to be doubted; and yet it is 
merely to be colleéted from that 
faint whisper,of expiring tradition, 
and from seme: notices minute and 
vanishing. ,The more northerly of 
the two walls above, that which 
yuns so tall, and so long towards 
the cast, now. comes out. to the west 
beyond the well and the well house, 
and was cut through ahout four or 
five years ago, on the west side of 
the house, to make a way from the 
house to the long and narrow gar- 
den adjoining: With this breach in 
its course, it goes on about a cou- 
ple of yards more to the west, and 
then ends in a ragged form, that 
shews it, by the freshness of the ap- 
pearance, to have been recently de- 
stroyed here; and it appears to 
have come forward to the same 
bank, on which the foundations of 
the parallel wall still appear, and 
had its own foundations there dug 
up about forty years ago. Both 
terminated at this bank, as I have 
already shewn, and so united with 
the western line of the castle-wall, 
that has been discovered at this { 
point, 
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