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Excerpt from The Book of the Old Edinburgh Club for the Year 1913, Vol. 6 Our chief interest now lay in the clearing out of the entrance to the Tower (fig. So far we had been working round the outside of the south end of the original Tower, and we were naturally led on with keen interest to try to trace the interior. After clearing out the soil in the doorway to the thickness of the 8 feet wall, the ground above, upon which the paving of the canteen cellar rested, commenced to fall in, and soon it was discovered that what had been the canteen coal-cellar was immediately above the entrance hall of the Tower. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.