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about 2ft. wide into two separate cells. Tlie cells are each 10ft. 

 long by 7ft. wide, the ends being rounded and the side walls 

 taking the shape of the circular wall in which they are formed. 

 The walls and partition are from 4 to 5 feet high. The floor of 

 the north cells is not paved. The entrance and the floors of 

 these chambers are on the level of the central court of the build- 

 ing. The thickness of the wall between these north chambers 

 and the outside face of the building is 6 feet at the east end and 

 7 feet at the west end of them. Beside the entrance there were 

 traces of a fire. 



On the west side of the building are three cells, or more 

 properly a lobby and two chambers entering by one door. The 

 door is 3ft. 6in. wide, and rises from the floor of the court in one 

 step about a foot high. On each side of this entrance is a parti- 

 tion leaving between them what may be called a lobby 5ft. lOin. 

 wide. The partition on the south side of this lobby and dividing 

 it from the south cell projects from the west wall so as to leave 

 a door into the cell between it and the east wall ; but the parti- 

 tion on the north side of the lobby projects from both sides, and 

 the doorway into the north cell is in the middle of it. The south 

 partition is 4ft. 4in. thick — the north partition is 3ft. 2in. on the 

 east side of the door and 3ft. lOin. on the west side of it. The 

 length of the three chambers is 33 feet, and the width 7 feet to 

 7ft. 6in. The wall between the cells and the court is on the 

 north side of the entrance door, 4ft. Sin. thick, and on the south 

 side 4ft. 11 in. These cells are not exactly of the same size ; the 

 north one is 9ft. 6in. long; the south one, 12ft. The height of 

 their walls is from 3 to 4ft. The central or entrance cell is 

 paved, and a part of the south cell nearest the door. Beside the 

 door of these cells in the court, traces of a fire were found ; and 

 in the southmost cell in the middle of the floor a hearth and 

 remains of a fire were also found. On the upper surface of the 

 stone forming the south side of the doorway to these cells is the 

 only artificial marking which has been found. The surface in 

 which it occurs has always been exposed above ground, and that 

 the marking is not very recent is evident from the fact that it is 

 overgrown with lichen. But whether it is ancient and contem- 

 porary with the building itself, it is difficult to say. It is repre- 

 sented in the Plate of the real size. None of the partitions, 

 either in these or in the north cells, form part of the original 



