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work—a great triangle (about 200 feet from base to apex) of towered ramparts protected by a third fosse which again severed the promontory. The accompanying plan—based upon the plan drawn by Monsieur Deville, and upon the plan drawn (in part conjecturally) by Monsieur Viollet-le-Duc—shows this system of defences more clearly than it can be described in words. Between the main work and the outwork the communication, seemingly, was by a wooden bridge that could be destroyed quickly if the outwork were carried. There are no traces of a permanent