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Earl's Palace (continued)
large round or projecting turret rooms and having at either end an immense chimney testifies the ancient northern hospitality of the Earls of Orkney, and communicates almost in the modern fashion, with a gallery or withdrawing room of considerable dimensions, and having like the hall, its projecting turrets. The lordly hall itself is lighted by a fine Gothic window of shafted stone at one end, and is entered by a spacious and elegant staircase, consisting of three flights of stone steps. The exterior ornaments and proportions of thee ancient building are also very handsome. The richly decorated circular turrets, ornamenting the different corners and angles of the building with the fine pilasters at the principal entrance are quite in keeping with the architecture of the sixteenth century, the time when the palace was built. Altogether it is a fit monument of the magnificence and splendour of those barons who (Continued on next page)