. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . and striking appearance, like nothing 1 ever saw. The oldest portions of the Castle are formed of huge irregularblocks of old red sandstone, which time and weather have mel-lowed into a beautiful grey-pink colour. The original Keep wasevidently about three or four storeys high, but Earl Patrick in1(170 heightened it considerably; the extra storeys were, how-ever, so well clappit on (to use the Earls own words) that itis impossible to see where the additions commence. The wallsof the Castle in many places are sixteen feet thick, which in
. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . and striking appearance, like nothing 1 ever saw. The oldest portions of the Castle are formed of huge irregularblocks of old red sandstone, which time and weather have mel-lowed into a beautiful grey-pink colour. The original Keep wasevidently about three or four storeys high, but Earl Patrick in1(170 heightened it considerably; the extra storeys were, how-ever, so well clappit on (to use the Earls own words) that itis impossible to see where the additions commence. The wallsof the Castle in many places are sixteen feet thick, which in theolden days had the essential recommendation of great security,and also of allowing space for secret rooms and passages as meansof escape in times of peril ; and, as a matter of fact, two secretstaircases have been discovered within the last five-and-twentyyears, and possibly there are others, which still remain forgottenand unused. The narrow windows appear at irregular heights and dis-tances in the central building or Keep and left wing (the right. THE DRAWING-ROOM, GLAMIS CASTLEFORMERLY THE BANQUETING HALL 102 ©lamis wing having been burnt down and rebuilt early in 1800 is not sointeresting), but the great staircase added by Patrick, LordGlamis, in 1605 is very fine, occupying a circular tower, the spacefor which has been partly dug out of the old walls of the Keep, and rises to the third storey. Thisstaircase (the designing of which hasbeen attributed to Inigo Jones) is spiralwith a hollow newel in the centre,and is composed of stone to the sum-mit. It consists of 141 steps, 6 in. in width, each of one stone. The staircases which were in usebefore 1000 are very narrow, dark,and some of them winding, the stepssteep and irregular in height, worninto hollows by the many feet that forcenturies climbed them. Up twoflights of these dimly lit, unevenstairs, the wounded king, Malcolm11., after having been treacherouslyattacked and mortally wounded byKenneth V. and his adhe
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