London : Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, Green, and Longman · leaf 377
. These castles were so well designed for the protection of thegarrison in cases of a close siege, that the difficulty of forcingthem, even after the outworks were taken, was very great; andthe manner of constructing the openings, so that the besiegedmight neither be annoyed by the instruments of… … In the first place, there were no windows whatever on theground floor, and even no other openings, except a few loop-holes on those sides of the building which were the most diffi-cult to attack. These openings, where they occurred, were notmore than 6 in. square ; and they were situated in such…
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