OS1/15/24/7
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THE BASS | [Continued] | are the only two landing places. Commanding this point, is a small fortalice at the extremity of the curtain. At one time, the fortification could be reached only by ladders, or by a bucket and chains raised at the crane bastion; but afterwards, the ascent was by three flights of stone stairs within the rampart, each protected by a strong gate: these inner gates have long ago dissappeared The fort and the dungeons are all unroofed, and in ruins. Blackader's Cell is still pointed out with its three small iron-barred windows to the west, and awakens many a solemn sacred feeling. One solitary gun yet remains of the ancient defence, now much corroded: the few other cannon on the Bass were brought thither from Leith only in 1822, to salute George IV [4] on his visit to Scotland, when the southern landing-place was somewhat prepared in the possibility of his Majesty landing there. The King of Belgium visited the Bass in 1819. About half-way up the acclivity of the rock, a little below the old effaced garden, are the interesting remains of a Chapel, pretty entire. The niches for the fonts shew that it was built prior to the reformation. When the Bass became the Bastile of Scotland, the state-prison for the persecuted Covenanters. over - |
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