The castellated and domestic architecture of Scotland, from the twelfth to the eighteenth century (1887)
MacGibbon, David, d. 1902, Ross, Thomas, 1839-1930 · Edinburgh : D. Douglas · leaf 251
NY CASTLE fireplaces (I. Fig. 685) are constructed in this angle, and means are con-trived by which a person may without difficulty ascend one of thechimneys, when, at the height of a few feet within the vent, a doorpresents itself, opening into a concealed apartment within the tribunementioned… … L-^--?^^^ i^ Fig. 690.—Cluny Castle. and air without any opening being discernible from without. And witha good fire blazing in the chimney below, it certainly would never occurto any successful assailant of the castle to search for his enemy in thechimney, where [nevertheless, with a competent…
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