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Romantic castles and palaces (1901)

Singleton, Esther, d 1930, [from old catalog] ed. and tr · New York, Dodd, Mead & co. · leaf 294

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hich turnthe banks above Windsor into a shallow lake. The furtherlandscape is still what it was. It is still a wooded land.There are no sterile patches, no ugly intervals, no nakedtracts of sand or earth. All is green, and better than inthe early days in this—that the cheerfulness of peace is onit,… … WINDSOR CASTLE 2ig The Castle was very strong. These keeps were built sothat there was no chance of a surprise. Massive gatesplaced in security beyond deep ditches were let into thewalls, well defended by battlement and flanking towers.Drawbridges and portcullises might be forced, but therethe…

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