Penny Dreadfuls, 1781 · page 18 of 120
A Month's Tour, &c. — page 18: what you’re looking at
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# Page Analysis This is a page of running prose from "A Month's Tour," appearing on page 18. The text describes a castle surrounded by a strong wall formerly adorned with fifty towers, several still remaining. It notes a fine tower on the south-east with a solid rock foundation, damaged on one side where inhabitants blasted the stone for building materials. The passage states the castle was built by King Edward the First and mentions Oliver Cromwell's erection of a battery at a distance south of the town, with his attempts to capture it beginning at the page's end.
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8 A MONTH’s TOUR. alderman, and bailiff of the caftle. Ir is furrounded bya very ftrong wall, faid te have been formerly adorned with fifty ~ beautiful towers, feveral of which are till remdining. On the fouth-eaft is built a fine tower, whofe foundation is folid rock, not greatly impaired outwardly, except the fouth fide; where a ‘large heap is fallen _ from the lower part of the wall, on ac- ~ count-of its being undermined by ‘the ins habitants, who blafted the foundation -yock, in order to get ftone for building. The caftle was built by King Edward the Firft. Oliver Cromwell erected a battery, On an advantagéous eminence, at about the diftance-of a: quarter of a mile fouth of the town. His attempts to take comicbooks.com