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of Scotland. The other ftreets narrow and irregular; the weft
fide had been defended by a wall.
| I cannot trace the foundation of the caftle ; if we may credit
pfetf, it was a place of ftrength in the middle of the ninth
century. The Romans had a camp and a military way on the weft
fide: it might be their Alaurn, but clouds and darknefs reft on this
■part of our hiftory.
mterlitig is a miniature refemblance of Edinburgh, built on a
H o f the fame form with that^on which the capital of Northman
is placed, with a ftrong fortrefs on the fummit.
■ he caftle is of great ftrength, impending over a fteep preci- C a s t l e .
¡pice. Within fide ftands the palace, built by James V. a prince
;th|t had a ftrong turn to the arts,, as appears by his buildings
teie and at Falkland. This pile is large, of a fquare form, or-
»taented on three fides with pillars, refting on grotefque figures,,
ping from the wall. On the top of each pillar, a fanciful
■ue.
■wo rooms, called the Queen's, and the nurfery, are large ; the
■s of wood, divided into fquares and other forms, well carved.
B clofet is fhewn, noted for the murder of William Earl of
■ M il 1452, trepanned here by a fafe conduit from Jams
I This nobleman, too potent for legal execution, had entered
■ affociations injurious to his prince; who commanded him to
Bud .the ofienfive alliance ; and, on refufal, ftabbedthe earl
V h>s own hand. In revenge,, the friends of Douglas inftantlv
N't the town>
■e parlement-houfe is a vaft room, a hundred and twenty feet
K with a timbered roof. This town, during the reigns of Mary
and