D UN-D O R NA D I L L A. 
f MENS °f the ancient architecture of the Tiffs are now but rarely 
the rucr Uadj CVen * n ^ ie mo ft uncultivated wilds : their remote fituations, among 
vifit t r :,et ' cd " niounta * ns J puts it almoft out of the power of travellers in general to 
at Mr “^though therefore feveral views of fimilar ftruCtures have already, 
thof e p e ™ mnt s inftance, been engraved ; yet as this is one of tire molt entire of 
giy e a Ul C an< ^ by its name remarkable in hiftory, it was judged proper to 
plai n e P r ^fentation of it in this collection, as being much better fuited to ex- 
Sce ner e descriptions of thefe Piffijh towers than that given in the Antiquities and 
the apj* tCau ^ c ^t'ws the internal ftruCture and arrangements of the lights into 
f'rorp t ] tments, and is more complete than any other view of it hitherto given, 
to i t> j . e a mo ^ : iuacceffible nature of the avenues among the mountains that lead 
a faithfu] H° tlikeIy tdlat aut h cnt ' c views of it will be often repeated on the fpot : 
atiy t ^- delineation °f it is therefore a monument of a fpecies of architecture, 
a ny p ei . n ®, em ‘ re remains of which are very few ; and it is not probable that 
of fociety will fee the fame ftyle of building returned. 
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chief V. Ur P r ^ in § ^ at f* ew of thefe ancient caftles, once the refidences of 
f lllc e th e ami Ies > fhould remain, becaufe it is evidently near a thoufand years 
°f building was changed, by the knowledge of the different kinds 
f °rt, x .m, ’ an< ^ their application to give ftrength and greater compaCtnefs to 
s an ^ dwellings. 
h u Ul j‘' n g s are alfo in fome degree venerable, as memorials of the length 
^ich We an ln S en uity will go, in providing the conveniences of life, in fituations 
ate apt to imagine the moft helpiefs and forlorn. 
^ r Uir lent . g V ‘ c |. en,: » Aat in the age when thefe fabrics were reared, they had no in- 
* lere any f° ^ r ° n : no ^ one °f them is moulded by a hammer into form, nor is 
^ e t the 01 oc b €r fuch material ufed to fill up the in terftices among the ftones j 
|!'* c d with^ S> m °^ artfull 7 to g et her, feem to exclude the air, and have been 
this °^ ea t mathematical care; elfe could they. not have remained in a tower 
3 ° tbh'ty feet high, fo as to have withftood the cafualties of a thoufand 
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