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INCIDENTS OF TRAVEL. 



flat, and supported by wooden beams resting upon 

 the two columns in the centre. From this apart- 

 ment a doorway three feet wide, close to the wall 

 of the principal building, leads to a chamber twenty- 

 four feet wide and nine feet deep, also roofless, and 

 having the same indications that the roof had been 

 flat and supported by wooden beams. 



The plate opposite represents the back or sea 

 wall of the Castillo. It rises on the brink of a high, 

 broken, precipitous cliff, commanding a magnificent 

 ocean view, and a picturesque line of coast, being 

 itself visible from a great distance at sea. The 

 wall is sohd, and has no doorways or entrances of 

 any kind, nor even a platform around it. At 

 evening, when the work of the day was ended and 

 our men returned to the hut, we sat down on the 

 moulding of the wall, and regretted that the door- 

 ways of our lofty habitation had not opened upon 

 the sea. Night, however, wrought a great change 

 in our feelings. An easterly storm came on, and the 

 rain beat heavily against the sea wall. We were 

 obliged to stop up the oblong openings, and con- 

 gratulated ourselves upon the wisdom of the ancient 

 builders. The darkness, the howling of the winds, 

 the cracking of branches in the forest, and the dash- 

 ing of angry waves against the cliff, gave a roman- 

 tic interest, almost a sublimity to our occupation of 

 this desolate building, but we were rather too hack- 

 neyed travellers to enjoy it, and were much annoy- 

 ed by mochetoes. 



