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FOURTH PERIOD
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CLUNY CASTLE

projecting towers and suspended turrets that an enemy could not set

Fig. 687.—Cluny Castle.

foot on any part of the surrounding ground without being exposed to the direct fire from loopholes in some quarter, and generally from more

Fig. 688.—Cluny Castle.

quarters than one, besides the advantage of standing isolated on a rising ground which is surrounded by low marshy meadow."