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kitchen adjoins Caesar’s tower, and must have been a considerably 
large building, but there are only a few remains of it. The place 
where the furnaces and large kettles stood is still perceptible. 
Adjoining the kitchen is the strong tower, forming the north¬ 
west corner; it is here that the Lancaster buildings commence. 
In this tower, which is also supported by uncommonly strong 
walls, are several tolerably well preserved winding stairs, by 
means of which one can ascend the walls to enjoy a fine and de¬ 
lightful prospect. Here are likewise cellars, still in good condi¬ 
tion. The corners of this tower lead to small outer-towers pro¬ 
vided with port-holes, which must have served for the defence 
of the place. Left of this building you reach the great hall. You 
observe in the basement story the servant’s hall, vaulted and 
furnished with central columns, which support the broken arches 
to the right and left. Over those arches is still to be seen where 
the flooring of the grand banquet-hall stood. The windows of 
this hall are very high, in a Gothic style, with columns in their 
centre. In the recesses of the windows are still several stone 
benches, and there are also two chimney-pieces to be seen in this 
hall. A smaller room is connected with it, having likewise a 
fire-place, which served as a chapel; and there is also a small 
closet, which the folks here call Queen Elizabeth’s dressing- 
room. 
The great hall forms the south-west corner of the castle, and 
•the ruins connected with it, belong to the southern wing. Close 
to the great hall, there are two ruins, of which but little remains 
to be seen, the first is called the white hall, the other the presence 
chamber. The so called privy chamber is next to them, in which 
a window and fire-place are still distinguishable; they say, that 
the chimney-piece, now in the gate-house, was taken from this 
place. Here begins the newest part of the castle, or the Leicester 
buildings. They consist of a large, quadrangular tower, four 
stories high, in which the place for the staircase, as well as the 
different stories, may still be clearly distinguished. And here 
terminate these uncommonly interesting and picturesque ruins, 
to the beauties of which the creeping ivy, which has grown very 
thickly over them, adds considerably. Fortunately, Lord Cla¬ 
rendon has forbidden, that any portion of the ruins should be 
taken away, for previous to the prohibition of such an abuse, the 
peasantry were in the habit of carrying away stones from the 
ruins to build their houses and for repairing their garden-walls. 
From Kenilworth I travelled five miles through a lovely coun¬ 
try to the town of Warwick, the capital of Warwickshire, to 
behold the Earl of Warwick’s castle, at that place. Two miles 
from this town, lie the now much visited and fashionable springs 
of Leamington, wherewith the exception of the company, nothing 
