fect the Caſtle cannot properly be ſaid to be in the Town, an Arm of the Sea running between them, which in high Tides would be deep enough to bear a Ship of Forty or Fifty Tun, tho' ſometimes quite drained of ſalt Water; but when it is ſupply'd with freſh by a River which runs from Kirk Jarmyn Mountains, and empties itſelf in the Sea. This Caſtle for its Situation, Antiquity, Strength, and Beauty, might juſtly come in for one of the Wonders of the World. Art and Nature ſeem to have vied with each other in the Model, nor ought the moſt minute Particular to eſcape Obſervation.
As to its Situation, it is built upon the Top of a huge Rock, which rears itſelf a ſtupendous Height above the Sea, with which, as I ſaid before, it is ſurrounded. And alſo by natural Fortifications of other leſſer Rocks, which renders it unacceſſible but by paſſing that little Arm of the Sea which divides it from the Town; this you may do in a ſmall Boat: and the Natives, tucking up their Cloaths under their Arms, and plucking off their Shoes and Stockings, frequently wade it in low Tides. When you arrive at the foot o⟨f⟩
