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in wliicli the Lord kept the prisoners of his Baronial judicature." 

 " On what is now near to the brook of Euan, and what was 

 formerly the very margin of the tideway, stand some lofty re- 

 mains which always attract the attention of a surveyor, and in 

 which is what tradition calls the " Dungel," and reports to have 

 been a prison." " Dungel then was the popular appellation 

 among the Cornish of Euan for the Round Tower itself ; though 

 it is now confined to its dungeon or prison. That was at least 

 50 feet in height within the present century. This is placed by 

 tradition where the remains are still about 40 feet high ; a thick 

 remnant of the castle shoots up into a kind of lofty gable and in 

 this is a couple of stone chimneys, one of them is still used in 

 a house that has latterly obtained the name of the Music-room, 

 from a musical society convened in it at times by Mr. Grrant — 

 but close to this chimney on the south is a kind of funnel in the 

 wall about 2 feet wide and five deep, that comes down from the 

 roof, is closed up in the chamber above, is all open to the earth 

 in the ground room, and descended lately by a hole in the floor 

 to an unknown depth in the earth. 



Forty years ago the boys called this funnel the Dungel, 

 threw stones down the uncovered hole in the floor, listened with 

 admiration to their rattle as they descended, and then ran away 

 with terrour. All the dust of the house used more recently to 

 be swept into it ; it has thus become so much filled up in time, 

 that a young girl used a few years ago to let herself down into 

 it to recover anything that had fallen down it : it was then about 

 seven feet deep, and it is now boarderl over. 



Under this room is a kind of cellar, used as a wash-house 



now, but reported by tradition to have been a Prison formerly ; 



it was the real Dungel or Dungeon of this Castle, being then 



accessible only, says tradition, from above, and it must have been 



a dark and dismal dungeon, having no light into it at present 



except a little that comes in by a small lattice, in the new part 



of the wall over the door, having the walls thick and damp 



around it, and even the roof for a yard high on the north side ; 



being accessible only by a rope or a ladder through a trap door 



in the floor above ; and being washed every tide with the waves 



of the sea." 



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