j»rp2. on antiquities in Scotland. lor 



his ordinary purposes, through the hole that he is 

 obliged to leave open for the emifsion of smoke. * 



If then the roof was open, the royal inhabitants 

 must have had some place to ftielter themselves 

 from rain and other inclemencies of the weather when 

 they went to rest. And where were they to find these 

 conveniencies ? The galleries in the heart of the wall, 

 which some have chosen to call apartments, could 

 not afford that flielter. The walls are of dry-stone, 

 without even a vestige of a little fog to close the 

 crannies, so that there is a continued suction of sif- 

 ting air through the whole, that would have destroy, 

 ed any human creature who ihovild have attempted to 

 sleep in them ; and though there fhould have been a 

 fire in the centre of the building, these supposed a- 

 partments would have been at such a distance from 

 the fire, as to have derived no sort of benefit from it^ 



But it is truly ridiculous to hear these galleries 

 called apartments, as the slightest attention to their 

 form and structure will sufficiently demonstrate. 

 The annexed elevation and section exhibiting a view 

 of one of these dhunes, will help to give the reader 

 a clearer idea of the internal construction of these 

 galleries than he could obtain by words alone. It is 

 drawn from the observations I made nt the eastmost 

 dhuneinGhnelg ; andwillbefound sufficiently accurate^ 

 unlef^ , perhaps, in regard to the number of the windows 

 and galleries in that tower, and its total height ; for 

 these circumstances are taken at random. The general 



• The general height of thcK toweis, and their large ditnenj'o'-s, 

 m;>.ircd wicu a low hui, would occ.sion this compar.\tivi;d;irk: el's, had a 

 ;. suiHcie-.t only fur the cm'fslon of smoke bfcu left in thejn. 



