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The prefent caftle is esp er! different from the ancient 
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town, as it com 
The interior of the caftle was once pi dae fitted up, and 
difplayed much magnificence, but e apartments having 
been neglected for many years, now one nothing worthy 
the ae ae of the ftranger or the touri 
r’s hole, abo ve-mentioned, isa moft extraordinary 
gee of ike labour of our anceftors ; but the precife purpofe 
for which it was formed and ufed is Gakaowa . The entrance 
to it has been provided with no lefs than fix gates, befides the 
fide one on the left hand, fince difcovered to be the fecret 
paflage by which king Edward was admitted into the for- 
trefs, as already noticed. The diftance between the firft and 
fecond gate was about 48 feet, from this to the third 42 feet, 
and from the third to the fourth 45 a ; 159 feet below 
i api was the 
now filled up ; fo that the whole length of this, anes well 
fecured, paflage was 107 yards, or 321 feet. Ivis feven ae 
high, and fix feet wide, and had all the way do oad 
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w trees ; and ae di 
probably is, that nature herfelf has done more towards their 
formation than art, aud that fuch parts of them as bear evi- 
dent marks of human pseulanage were not the work of one 
centuries. Stukeley, who vifited this lace in the early as 
the laft century, obferves, on the are - a — 
ae “ Pas is vifible at prefent is not of { e 
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upon their’s. This is a ledge of perpendicular rock hewn 
out into a church, holes, chambers, dove-houfe, &c. The 
church is like thofe in the rocks at Bethlehem, and other 
places in the Holy Land. The altar i is anatural rock, and 
way to it was ne ‘gates ae out of the 
oblique entrance for greater fafet 
three niches, whic a 
ik 
any thing that will convey a more 
effe&t of damp and froft, but the church and altar, and fome 
few veftiges of ancient oaintings. may be clearly traced. 
Many of the pillars are ornamented with capitals, &c. and the 
imitated in various 
much of it is disfigured with the groffeft filthinefs. 
mer thefe caves are the haunts of the very loweft of fociety, 
who there take up their nocturnal abode. 
At the upper end of the caftle park, adjoining to the 
Derby road, is an extenfive range of barracks erected by go- 
vernment in 1792-3. The buildings are of brick, and com. 
mand a view over the whole town. 
Befides the caverns above-mentioned, many other caves 
are fituated in the i dries of Nottingham, and fome 
of them even within the es of the town. Of thefe 
the vale of Belvoir. 
mantic, as man 
rock, and have ftaircafes that lead up to g: 
the inhabitants ag Sr out of their dens, like the inmates of 
another world ; in fact, if it had not been at home, and there- 
fore little A Soot wi place would, without doubt, have 
been noveli so aupen aaa sap bes the Lauer 
world had ‘eae mad for 
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and Trenton.—Alfo, a town in Prince George’s county, 
reeling on Pa river 5 ‘6 miles N.E. of Pife 
Nor ited, Weft, a poft-town in Hillfborough county, 
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