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 I30 Hiflory of Domejiic Marnier s original windows, alfo round arched. On the north and eaft fides were two other windows, the openings of them all being fmall towards the exterior, but enlarging inwards. The interior mufl have been extremely dark J neverthelels it contains a fireplace, and was probably the public No. S6. Plan of Ground- F Lor of ILuJe at M'lllichope. room. The opening at a is merely a modern paffage into the farm-houfe. As this houfe Hands on the borders of Wales, and therefore fecurity was the principal confideration, the ftaircafe, from the thicknefs of the walls, was fafer infide than on the exterior. We accordingly find that it was No. 87. Plan of the Upper Floor. worked into the mafs of the wall in the fouth-weft corner, the entrance being at c. The fteps of the lower part — it was a ftone ftaircafe — are concealed or deftroyed, fo that we hardly know how it commenced, but there are fteps of ftone now running up to the foler or upper apartment, as