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caftle, before I fought out an inn, but 

 from the great number of turns in the 

 narrow ftreets, I found fome difficulty 

 in reaching it, though I could keep it in 

 fight nearly the whole time. A late 

 Tourift* has remarked, that it has 

 been thought, from it's fituation, to re- 

 femble Edinburgh; but though fome 

 flight traces of fnnilarity may be found, 

 he thinks the boldnefs of the pofnion of 

 Edinburgh, and the grandeur of it's 

 furrounding objects, far furpafs every 

 thing here. 



The entrance into the caftle is 

 through a large Gothic arch, which was 

 formerly flanked by two octagonal tow- 

 ers, both now in ruins. Over the gate, 

 in an ornamental nich, is a figure of it's 

 founder, Henry de Lacy, fitting in his 

 robes of ftate ; and over another gate, 



* Henry Skrine, Efq. of Warley in Somerfetfhire. 



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