J50 A TOUR ROUND NORTH AVALKS. 



be the cafe without this contrivance. This 

 feems a moft inconvenient mode of convey- 

 ance : it appears that fledges, fimilar to thofe 

 ufed in many parts of Weftmoreland and 

 Cumberland for conveying flates down the 

 mountains, would not only be lefs expen- 

 five, but much more fafe and commodious. 

 The entrance into Caernarvon Caftle is 

 through a high grand gateway, over which 

 is a figure of the royal founder grafping in 

 his hand a dagger. In this gate, which 

 has been otherwife remarkably ftrong, there 

 have been no lefs than four portcullifes. 

 The caftle is a large and irregular building, 

 much more mattered within than from 

 viewing it on the outfide one would be led 

 to imagine. The towers are for the moft 

 part octagonal, but there are three or four 

 which have each ten fides; amongft thefe 

 is the Eagle Tower, the largeft and by far 

 the moft elegant in the whole building. 

 This tower, which received its name from 



the 



