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Peter of the Castle Volume 3.cJohn Banim
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Author: John Banim
Page Count: 74 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781231966358
Download Link: Peter of the Castle Volume 3
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 Excerpt: ...him. He walked round by the walls, expecting to discover a recess, but was disappointed. Issuing from the chamber, he gained the scanty landing-place, before the threshold of its low, square door-way, and observing that the twisting staircase continued upward towards the top of the castle, mounted it. He arrived at a second landing-place, and a second low, square door, that gave him entrance upon the floor above the apartment he had just quitted. Here were no beds, and, except the swollen and toiling clouds, no ceiling or covering. The earthen surface on which he stood, was encumbered with the fragments of the flat roof, that long ago had tumbled in; for the luxuriant crop of weeds which flourished among the ruins, told that they were not of recent date. In old castles of a similar kind, he had previously observed the construction of the roof, or covering, to have been a little elevated towards the centre, with, from that point, grooves diverging and running into a stone channel, which, attached to the walls of the building, received the waters that fell on the roof, and discharged them outwardly, through vents in each angle, upon the earth below; of such a roof the whole had, in the present case, given way, except that around two sides of the castle, the remains of the narrow water-course still projected--to Redmond's eye, as he gazed upward, very insecurely and scantily. But having ascertained that the uncovered chamber could not possibly shelter the hermit of the ruined abode, he issued out again, and ascended still higher. With some caution, he stood upon the edge of the frail water-course, and looking across the space between him and the opposite wall, thought he perceived what he had been seeking, a recess, such as might afford concealment to the obje...
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Peter of the Castle Volume 3.cJohn Banim
Author: John Banim
Page Count: 74 pages
Published Date: 01 May 2012
Publisher: Rarebooksclub.com
Publication Country: Miami Fl, United States
Language: English
ISBN: 9781231966358
Download Link: Peter of the Castle Volume 3
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1827 Excerpt: ...him. He walked round by the walls, expecting to discover a recess, but was disappointed. Issuing from the chamber, he gained the scanty landing-place, before the threshold of its low, square door-way, and observing that the twisting staircase continued upward towards the top of the castle, mounted it. He arrived at a second landing-place, and a second low, square door, that gave him entrance upon the floor above the apartment he had just quitted. Here were no beds, and, except the swollen and toiling clouds, no ceiling or covering. The earthen surface on which he stood, was encumbered with the fragments of the flat roof, that long ago had tumbled in; for the luxuriant crop of weeds which flourished among the ruins, told that they were not of recent date. In old castles of a similar kind, he had previously observed the construction of the roof, or covering, to have been a little elevated towards the centre, with, from that point, grooves diverging and running into a stone channel, which, attached to the walls of the building, received the waters that fell on the roof, and discharged them outwardly, through vents in each angle, upon the earth below; of such a roof the whole had, in the present case, given way, except that around two sides of the castle, the remains of the narrow water-course still projected--to Redmond's eye, as he gazed upward, very insecurely and scantily. But having ascertained that the uncovered chamber could not possibly shelter the hermit of the ruined abode, he issued out again, and ascended still higher. With some caution, he stood upon the edge of the frail water-course, and looking across the space between him and the opposite wall, thought he perceived what he had been seeking, a recess, such as might afford concealment to the obje...
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