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PEVERIL OF THE PEAK.
almost impregnable; and was always held by a
gan-ison belonging to the Lords of Man. Here
Peveril arrived at night-fall. He was told in the
fishing village, that the night-bell of the Castle
had been rung earlier than usual, and the watch,
set with circumstances of unusual and jealous
precaution.
Resolving, therefore, not to disturb the garri¬
son by entering at that late hour, he obtained an
indifferent lodging in the town for the night, and
determined to go to the Castle early on the suc¬
ceeding morning. He was not sori'y thus to gain
a few hours of solitude, to think over the agita¬
ting events of the preceding day.
CHAPTER III.
What seem’d it’s head,
The likeness of a kingly crown had on.
Paradise Lost.
^odor, or Holm-Peel, so is named the castle
to which our Julian directed his course early on
the preceding morning, is one of those singular
monuments of antiquity with which this singular
and interesting island abounds. It occupies the
whole of a high rocky peninsula, or rather an
island, for it is surrounded by the sea at high wa¬
ter, and scarcely accessible even when the tide is
out, although a stone causeway, of great solidity,