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 THIRD PERIOD 328 CRAIG CASTLE this floor are lighted by borrowed lights in the inner wall of the passage. This arrangement seems to have been original, as the corbels for the wall plate of the roof of the passage, and the water table above, are carried all round the top floor. Portions of the inner walls of the parapet or passage are carried up as gables, and have the appearance of rising through the roof. The top story is unfinished, and has been altered by the introduction of chimneys, etc., which block the covered passage at intervals. The roofs have the rather unusual finish of gabled crow-steps on the skews. These are more frequently found in connection with ecclesiastical work, although sometimes met with in castles, as at Edinburgh Castle, Farnell Castle, etc. The old church of Auchendoir is close to Craig Castle. It has a good doorway and other first pointed features. DUNDAS CASTLE, LINLITHGOWSHIRE. Dundas Castle, near the village of Dalmeny, and about eight miles west from Edinburgh, is in a good state of preservation so far as its masonry is concerned, but having been about the beginning of this century fitted up as a distillery, its interior arrangements are in Fro. 280. Dundas Castle. Plans. various places concealed by the brick erections connected therewith. The castle stands on the summit of a rocky hill,_and externally it pre-