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 FOURTH PERIOD 376 ROWALLAN CASTLE stream. These bridges are old, and seem to have had gates or provision of some kind for defence. The house is a fine specimen of the Scottish mansion of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and, although quite national in its character- istics, there are some things about its design, or rather absent from it, which mark it off from others of its class. It has little or nothing of the turreting so frequent in projecting and recessed angles, nothing of the overhanging effects produced by corbelling, so common at this