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 DRUMMOND CASTLE 289 THIRD PERIOD but these are now so ruinous that it is impossible to distinguish their various uses. They no doubt contained vaulted kitchen and offices on the ground floor, and the reception-rooms common at the time on the upper floors. The castle is said to have suffered greatly at the hands of Cromwell in the middle of the seventeenth century. It was strengthened in 1715, and garrisoned by Royal troops. To prevent this again happening, the Dowager Duchess of Perth is stated to have caused the walls to be levelled with the ground in 1745. The old castle being ruinous, a modern mansion was erected to the eastward about 1689. A view of the courtyard (Fig. 240) is given, from which it is apparent that it has been somewhat modernised. The north side of this mansion overlooks a terrace on the top of the rock above the approach. The terrace (Fig. 241) is supported with large and massive buttresses, which are partly old, and contribute greatly to the picturesque effect of the pile. The beautiful terraced gardens on the south side of the castle are of world-wide fame. The estate now belongs to Lady Willoughby d'Eresby. ROSYTH CASTLE, FIFESHIRE. Rosyth Castle is situated on a low-lying, flat peninsula on the north margin of the Firth of Forth, opposite Queensferry, and is surrounded at high tides by water. The peninsula towards the Firth presents a rocky face a few feet above the water, gradually merging into sandy shores as it approaches the land. The castle (Fig. 243) consists of a keep and buildings of a later age, the latter being now very ruinous. The keep is in tolerable preservation, and is ob- long on plan (Fig. 243), measuring 48 feet 6 inches by 41 feet 3 GROUND inches over the walls, Fio. 243. Rosyth Castle. Plans. with a staircase at the south-east corner, 17 feet in breadth over the T