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the site of a half-rouiul tower, bcyoud which the wall extends in a straight Hue to Arundel tower, so called from Sir John Arundel, an early governor. This is a drum, '2'2 ft. in diameter, which caps the North- East angle of the town. This tower is 50 ft. to (>0 ft. high, and seems to ritiO out of a rectun-jular mass of nuisonrv, jKissihly added to strengthen it. Here the intt-rnal level is 30 ft. or more above the external, being a part, no doubt, of the uld earthworks. Continuing along the West wall is a bold half-round tower, 20 ft. dia- meter and 30 ft. high, of excellent rough ashlar, with bold machicola- tions at the level of the adjacent curtain. This is Catchcold Tower. Built against tiie bank it looks .solid, or like a bastion, but it is said to be hollow, though how entered does not appear. This tower, with the adjacent wall for some feet, is ajiparently a Perpendicular addition to what seems to be a Decorated wall. Beyond the tower is a llight of modern steps, ascending 30 ft. to the sunmiit of the wall, which is there common to both town and castle. The wall then runs forward oblicpiely, probably to allow of the inclusion of the earthworks of the castle. It seems in substance Norman. The salient is capped by a rectangular buttress, the hollow angles of which on each side are cros.sed by low pointed arches, pierced as garderobes, as at Porchester. This buttress tower is of Decorated date. Then f(jllows about 131 yards of straight wall, probably Norman, about 3.S ft. high, and backed to the summit with eartii. Upon it a small rectangular buttress marks the junction of the Nortli wall of the castle with the town-wall. Further on are five rectangular buttresses of various dimensions. The three first are evidently adtlitious upon the Norman wall; the rest seem original. Part of the wall here is divided into two stages by a bold horizontal bead. Below are two narrow win- dows of about 18 in. opening, resembling largo loopholes, and which seem to have had s<piare iieads. Above are traces of two windows, appa- rently round-headed. There must have been an interior chamber, now closetl. The central buttress is bi'oad and Hat, and hero are tiaces of the old water-gate of the castle, which must have been reached by steps, the gronml beliind lieing al)ove 30 ft. high. Close Nortli of this water- gate is a large vaulted chamber, built against the town wall, and now closed. This |)art of the wall ends in a rectangidar projection, ])roliiil>ly the root of a tower, marking the junction of the castle South wall with the Town wall. From hence the wall is low and thin for a short dis- tance, marking the end of the castle ditch, and on the rising ground of its counterscarp is the root of another sipnu'o tower, marking the re- cmimenccment of the regular town wall, which then turns inwards so as to j)rotect Biddle's (Jate. This gate openeil into a steep and rather narrow ascent willed Simnell Street. At liiddle's (Jate commences a wry curious part of the wall, which, as fur South as a little beyond I'.lue Anchor postern, is mdiko anything in England. The original wall, here about 30 ft. high ami I ft. thick, with the soil nearly level within an<l without, Heems to have served not only for the town wall, l)Ut for the wall of several dwelling-houses within it, the doors and windows of which ar«> vinible in the wall, though now closed up, The.se openings show the wall to have been .Norman, and of a niodunitely early period. This wall was not found sulliiienf ly strong for the purpose of defunco, and a second wall, also I ft. thick, was built