440 LANYHOBN CASTLE. 



" Immediately over this subterranean kind of prison must the 

 jailer have lived ; The chimney of the room over the dungeon 

 was the chimney of his house." 



Immediately on the next side of this and connected with it 



is another chimney of stone, shooting up in the same substance 



of the wall, but having a different funnel, the fire-place of the 



chimney is very large, and shows the room belonging to it to 



have been very ample ; above also and at a good height, for an 



ancient building in Cornwall, is the water-table of it ; being a 



channel cut in the face of the wall for the reception of the end 



of a roof. This continues for a considerable way on the north, 



and shows the roof to have been long and sloping ; on the southern 



side it goes off much sharper, and then is lost in the loss of the 



wall : and from all and from the vicinity of this building to the 



dungeon, I suppose it to have been the great Hall of the Castle, 



the room in which the baronial Court was held and the criminals 



of the dungeon were tried. The hearth of this chimney still 



remains, composed of several stones cemented together, but the 



chimney has been latterly contracted, repaired and provided with 



an oven at one side for a building that has been erected in the 



room of the hall that had been divided into two dwellings, and 



was approached by a flight of steps and a narrow access from 



the present wharf below. The foundation of the wall also still 



remains in the ground, above a yard in height, and three or 



four yards in length : with the solid and massy wall of the 



dungeon, but much less massy and solid than that. Between 



these two buildings rose up the Eound Tower — This was so large 



in the eyes of Mr. Tonkin, that it seemed at first to have been 



the body of the " whole" and appeared at last as the biggest 



and loftiest of all. Just above the point of the water-table, 



and on the north side still are seen the evident relics of a large 



arch, this must have been constructed for supporting the Tower, 



and have been therefore accompanied with a similar arch on each 



of the three other sides, resting on all and rising about 10 



feet higher than the present remains of the Eound Tower, having 



two chimneys back to back, and being secured with battlements 



all round. This, says tradition, just before its demolition had the 



