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terwar 55 had consolidated into 
some similarity of nature with the 
stones themselves. The mode also 
of cons{ruction in the two courts is 
very different. In the base court, 
the stones are huge, unshapen, and 
ill compacted, gaping rudely in the 
joints, and presenting a clumsy and 
coarse appearance to the eye. But, 
in the. ‘higher court, the long wall 
exhibits to us a piece of masonry, 
that would do credit to a modern 
builder ; the stones being shaped i in- 
to smooth surfaces, being laid in re- 
gular courses, and carrying a fair 
and modern appearance with them ; 
and both appear to be the stones of 
a quarry upon the glebe, which, 
only ten years ago, exhibited al] the 
aspect of a deep and an ancient 
quarry, showing a high face of rock, 
being covered eet trees, having 
formerly been famous as a harbour 
for snakes, and being found, on ex- 
amination, to have been perfeétly 
worked out. They are certainly 
the stones of the glebe, from “their 
hue and their hardness. The ground 
of the base court has been ‘found to 
be remarkably deep in the soil.— 
Hundreds of loads of earth have 
been carried away from it, for ma- 
Huring the adjoining fields. But 
the ground of the higher court is 
very shallow. This is attributable to 
two causes co-operating, The lower 
court was construéted with clay 
floors generally, and with side walls 
of clay entirely, J presume. These, 
in the demolition of the whole, have 
mingled with the soil, and have 
deepened it. But the other was 
constructed obviously in a more 
modern style of refinement, with 
side walls of stone, and with board- 
ed floors. And these haye left the 
ground in its original shallowness of 
Soil, The other cause is this :— 
ANNUAL REGISTER, 
1803. 
The plane of the castle-hill was ori- 
ginally uneven and precipicious, and 
required much labour of levelling. 
This threw vast quantities of earth 
into particular places, to fill up hol- 
lows, and to smooth the falls. And 
i have given a remarkable instance 
of a mana caught by a falling bank, 
and buried twelve feet deep in 
earth. But the ground above was 
of a different nature, and required 
little levelling, and, therefore, re- 
ceiyed little accumulation of earth in 
places. It remained, therefore, in 
its original state. I was, some 
years ago, informed by an old man, 
who, from his constant residence in 
the village, and from his great age, 
was the faithful chronicle of the pa- 
rish, that a giant once lived in this 
castle—an incident of romance, 
which seems to carry us up to some 
of the remotest periods of our his- 
tory. But he added, that another 
giant lived contemporary with him 
at Trelouk, an estate in the parish ; 
that, two giants so near being sure 
to quarrel for exclusive dowinion 
and sole sovereignty, the giant of 
Lanyhorne fought with the giant of 
Trelouk ; and that, as giants scorn 
to contend with the ordinary Wwea- 
pons of a man, they hurled stones 
at one another. But, from the op- 
position of the owner of this castle 
to the possessor of the house of 
Trelouk, I consider the story only 
as an echo ; an echo, indeed, that 
has redoubled the sounds in the re- 
petition, of some pitched battle be- 
tween two rival barons. But how 
could there be any baron in a pa- 
rish that was the property of the 
Jord of Lanyhorne pile ? Or how 
could any gentleman in the parish 
presume to fight with bim who was 
the sovereign of the whole? [I ac- 
count for both these circumstances 
thus. 
