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( 77 ) leading to a refervoir, or a fpring, is not no\f perfectly known. As ufiial, at every other an- tient fortification, in every country, tradition amufes the enquirer, with tales of an under ground communication with the town and con- fequent fables are related ; but the moft probable conjecture, is, that Hoping drains, being carried from the furface of the hill, whatever water fell in rain, muft feed to it, and afforded at leaft a tem- porary refourfe for its garrifon. It is aifo re porte...d, that the heavy firing from the caftle batr teries, in the laft liege, fhook the rock, fo as to open fome pa-flages, by which its waters (whe- ther from rain or fprin^s) found a vent, and could no longer be retained; wherefore, the numbers pent up within, were (fays the Legend) fo diftreiTed, as obliged the governor to capitu- late. The embattled line wall, which enclofed the plain of this Cafrle-hill, ran along its out- ward edge, as was before obfervcd, flanking the town, and continuing on, towards the fea.
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