154- A TOUR ROUND NORTH WALES. 



munication could be had with the other 

 parts without danger. On one fide this 

 yet remains undemolimed. It was next 

 the outer wall, and was lighted by narrow 

 (Iks that ferved as ftations, from which, 

 during a fiege, arrows, and other miffile 

 weapons could be difcharged with advan- 

 tage upon the enemy. The caftle occupies 

 the whole weft end of the town - 3 it has 

 been a fortrefs of great ftrength, and before 

 the introduction of artillery was, no doubt, 

 able to withftand for a long time the moft 

 forcible attacks of an enemy. The exterior 

 walls are in general about three yards in 

 thicknefs. From its fituation and ftrength 

 it ieems to have been well adapted to over- 

 awe the newly acquired fubje&s of it's 

 founder. It is bounded on one fide by the 

 Streights of Menai ; by the Eftuary of the 

 Seiont, exactly where it receives the tide 

 from the former, on another; on the third, 

 and part of the fourth fides, by a creek of 



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