THE CASTILLO, 



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A single doorway leads to the back corridor, which 

 is nine feet wide, and has a stone bench extending 

 along the foot of the wall. On each side of the 

 doorway are stone rings, intended for the support of 

 the door, and in the back wall are oblong openings, 

 which admit breezes from the sea. Both apart- 

 ments have the triangular-arched ceiling, and both 

 had a convenience and pleasantness of arrangement 

 that suited us well as tenants. 



The wings are much lower than the principal 

 building. Each consists of two ranges, the lower 

 standing on a low platform, from which are steps 

 leading to the upper. The latter consists of two 

 chambers, of which the one in front is twenty-four 

 feet wide and twenty deep, having two columns in 

 the doorway, and two in the middle of the chamber 

 corresponding with those in the doorway. The 

 centre columns were ornamented with devices in 

 stucco, one of which seemed a masked face, and the 

 other the head of a rabbit. The walls were entire, 

 but the roof had fallen ; the rubbish on the floor 

 was less massive than that formed in other places by 

 the remains of the triangular- arched roof, and of dif- 

 ferent materials, and there w^ere holes along the top 

 of the wall, as if beams had been laid in them, all 

 which induced us to believe that the roofs had been 



of our North American Indians, and was favoured by him with an 

 interesting communication on the subject of the print of the red 

 hand, which will be found in the Appendix, and for which the au- 

 thor here takes occasion to offer his acknowledgments. 



