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that opened to the north, and towards some appendages to the 

 Castle which I shall notice hereafter. The orchard, the farmyard 

 and the field retained for its own use, and there being no space 

 for these appendages upon the south, because of the tideway, 

 on the east because of the precipice, or on the west because of 

 the parsonage, they must necessarily have been on the north. 

 The higher court was of much later addition, the original castle 

 consisting of one court, this was the lower, it was originally all, 

 this is evident from the difference of architecture in the remains 

 of both ; those of the lower are universally constructed with clay 

 mortar, while those of the higher are cemented with lime, both 

 are especially apparent in all the joints of the stones, and in that 

 part of the long wall the foundation of which has been dug up 

 lately at the western end. Pieces of lime have been found so 

 solid and so massy, that some persons wildly supposed the lime 

 to have petrified in the ground from age. These pieces assuredly 

 that had been poured boiling hot upon the foundations had 

 formed itself into irregular cakes in the interstices between the 

 stones, and then from its close adherence to the stones, perhaps 

 from opposition between the heat of these and the cold of those, 

 and certainly from the exclusion of the external air afterwards 

 had consolidated into some similarity of nature with the stones 

 themselves. The mode also of construction in the two courts is 

 very different to the base court, the stones are huge, unshapen 

 and ill compacted, gaping rudely in the joints, and presenting a 

 clumsy and coarse appearance to the eye, but in the higher 

 court the long wall exhibits to us a piece of masonry that would 

 do credit to a modern builder, the stones being shaped into 

 smooth surfaces with a fair and modern appearance, and both 

 appear to be the stones of a quarry upon the glebe which only 

 10 years ago exhibited all the aspect of a deep and ancient 

 quarry showing a high face of rock, being covered with trees, 

 having formerly been famous as a harbour for snakes, and being 

 found on examination to have been perfectly worked out, they 

 are certainly the stones of the glebe from their hue and their 

 hardness. The ground of the base court has been found to be 

 remarkably deep in soil, hundreds of loads of earth have been 

 carried away from it for manuring the adjoining fields. But the 

 ground of the higher court is very shallow, this is attributable 



