No. 229 - THE PENNY MAGAZINE - Oct. 31, 1835
* In some provinces these towers are also furnished with bells of cast-iron. Many of the towers have been allowed to fall to a ruin. "A watch-tower in ruins gave us an opportunity to examine its structure: the brick-work was about four feet in thickness, with an opening in the interior sufficient for a staircase, leading to the platform; on the top there were embrasures, but the parapet-wall was not of sufficient thickness to permit of cannon being mounted;--the form is a square."--Ellis's 'Journal of Lord Amherts's Embassy.'
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