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Excerpt from Lord Montagu's Page, Vol. 3 of 3: A Historical Romance Only mention the percolation of the water of the fosse and its effect upon the foundations amongst which that and other dungeons were placed, to show that the place of the poor youth's confinement was as damp and disagreeable as it could be. Some stones had fallen from the vault above, some large detached pieces of mortar, green and slimy, covered the mud or stone floor, and the walls were all glistening with dampness but those walls were too thick, and the blocks of stone of which they were com posed, too heavy for any unaided prisoner to have worked his way out with the utmost dili gence. In one corner of the miserable hole was a sort of camp bedstead with a straw bed, covered with yellow and green stains from long exposure to the foul moist air - disgust and sickness and death to lie upon - and in another corner, high up on the wall was a little grated window, not so high as the opposite parapet of the glacis, but sufficiently so to admit the air and the sounds from without. The wall was. 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.