The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great BritainAccompanied with descriptions . ; and which is said to have beenremoved here on the demolitiou of Glamis castle, where that CAWDOR OK tALDEK CASTLE. murder was really perpetrated. Fordun has it that Malcolmwas killed at or near the town of Glamis, but does not sayin the castle. The construction of the bedstead is however too modernto bear out its pretensions. There is still great part of a chapel remaining entire,though the ancient part of the c
The antiquarian itinerary, comprising specimens of architecture, monastic, castellated, and domestic; with other vestiges of antiquity in Great BritainAccompanied with descriptions . ; and which is said to have beenremoved here on the demolitiou of Glamis castle, where that CAWDOR OK tALDEK CASTLE. murder was really perpetrated. Fordun has it that Malcolmwas killed at or near the town of Glamis, but does not sayin the castle. The construction of the bedstead is however too modernto bear out its pretensions. There is still great part of a chapel remaining entire,though the ancient part of the castle is mostly in are, however, many apartments of a more moderndate. The place contains many reliques of antiquity of a vene-rable and mysterious nature j among the rest a large roundblock or stool, cut by the command of some saint, from thestem of a neighbouring thorn, for a miraculous castle gives the title to the Calder family, and a streamon its west side bears the same appellation. Its situationis so enclosed that there are no very extensive views from it,but its site is so romantic as to afford many very picturesqueand interesting prospects. r. I ROMAN BRICKS AT WISBEACII, CAMBRID GESHIRE. PLATE I. WiSBEACH, the most northern town in Carubridgeshhe,and the second in consequence, excepting the Roman remainsexhibited in the engraving, has very little to boast on thescore of antiquity. This town derives its name from itssituation on the banks of the river Ouse or Wis, which flowsthrough it, and falls into the sea at about the distance ofeight miles. The collected waters of the upland country,that for some centuries have passed to Lynn, by a channelcut for that purpose in the reign of Edward the First, fromLittleport to Little Brandon, or the Little Ouse, were for-merly disharged through this place, but were diverted fromtiieir ancient course by the injudicious attempts made toimprove the drainage. One part of this town is not morethan fifty yards f
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