The castles of England, their story and structure (1896)
Mackenzie, James Dixon, Sir, 7th bart. of Scatwell and 9th of Tarbat, 1830-1900 · New York : The Macmillan co. · leaf 34
nded by the sea,and with a narrow neck of land only joining it to the mainland, which threemen shall be able to defend against the whole power of the kingdom. Sincethat time this narrow neck, being broken through bv the sea, gave place to adrawbridge, which Hals in 1602 says was then remembered,… … H^ ^ ^ CORNWALL 17 them joining the work on the mainland to that on the island having falleninto the sea : the drawbridge fell in the sixteenth century. The chasm whichforms so picturesque a feature in the scenery is now about 200 feet across,and is gradually widening. For some time after the…
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