This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...feudal days. It is entirely composed of polished stone of a red colour; what remains of it occupies a space of 234 feet in length and ninety-nine in breadth, with two lofty flanking towers on the east and a great tower on the west. The entrance to the castle is from the north, nearly in the centre of the wall; and ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1880 Excerpt: ...feudal days. It is entirely composed of polished stone of a red colour; what remains of it occupies a space of 234 feet in length and ninety-nine in breadth, with two lofty flanking towers on the east and a great tower on the west. The entrance to the castle is from the north, nearly in the centre of the wall; and vestiges of the fosse are yet visible. The lodgings are confined to the east and west divisions, many of them sufficiently distinguishable by their lofty roofs. The walls are upwards of fifteen feet in thickness in many parts, and sixty feet in height at the rampart next the river. A staircase, yet tolerably entire, in the highest tower, and at a fearful elevation from the bed of the river, affords the spectator a view of great extent and beauty towards the west. Among the dungeons is a circular one known as Wallace's Beef Barrel; and early in the present century a well, penetrating through the rock to a spring of excellent water, was discovered in the corner of one of the towers. The chapel has a number of small windows and two large ones towards the south. The interior area of the castle is converted into a bowlinggreen and flower-garden; and Bothwell House adjoins it. Access to the castle and the beautiful grounds by which it is surrounded has, by the kindness o f the Earl of Home, been granted to the public for every Tuesday and Friday. Motherwell. CHAPTER IV, LANARK AND ITS ASSOCIATIONS. OTHWELL is connected with the main line of the Caledonian Railway, by a short branch which places the tourist within easy reach of all the towns "served" by that system, just as the line by which we travelled hither from Hamilton opens up the entire North British Railway. As we purpose making Lanark our next halting place, we leave Bothwell by an ea...
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