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any communication j and the doors of them 6p- 

 pofire to the fpace which feparates them. In the 

 lides towards the country are loop-holes ; and in 

 critical times it was made a court of guard. From 

 the outfide of this oval tower, a wall is extended on 

 the left fide about forty toifes, and about twenty- 

 five on the right ; this wall was continued in a greafe 

 number of irregular angles^ and inClofed a large fpot 

 of ground* It had only one entrance, which was 

 in the fide oppofite to the tower; and facing the 

 laft angle on the right near the rivulet. From 

 this gate or entrance was a paffage, jiift broad 

 enough for two perfons to walk abreaft ; and at the; 

 wall turned iliort off towards the tower but always 

 of the fame breadth. After this it winded towards 

 the breach^ and widened fo as to form a parade be- 

 fore the tower. In thefe pafTages, at the diftance of 

 every two or three paces, one fees niches formed 

 within the wall, like fentry-boxes : and on the other 

 fide two doors, which were entrances to the fame 

 number of foldiers de logis, and feem to have ferved 

 the corps of the garrifon for barracks. In the in- 

 ner fquare, to the left of the tower, were feveral 

 apartments, of which the height, difpofition, and 

 doors, are a fufficient proof that this was once the 

 prince's palace. All the walls being full of hollows, 

 refembling cupboards, in which, as likewife in the 

 two chambers of the tower, the niches, and along 

 the pafTages, were ftone pegs, with a head betwixt 

 fix and eight inches long, and three or four in dia- 

 meter ; the ufe of thefe probably was for hanging 

 up their arms. 



The whole main wall on the flope of the 

 mountain, and defcending laterally from the oval 

 ' tower, is very thick, and the outfide perpendi- 

 cular. Within is a large rampart, and on it a pa- 

 rapet of an unufual height : and though the ram- 



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