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Below the window, on one of the bastioned traces on the seaward side of the hotel, waits the big 88.

This of Lough Braccan is not perhaps the best, but it is the most easily detached from the text: Among those mountain skirts a league away, Lough Braccan spread, with many a silver bay And islet green; a dark cliff, tall and bold, Half-muffled in its cloak of ivy old, Bastioned the southern brink, beside a glen, Where birch and hazel hid the badger's den, And through the moist ferns and firm hollies play'd A rapid rivulet, from light to shade.

And on the eastern side, over their heads, the little stone town with its bastioned walls was colored in bars of salmon and pearl.

It is a bastioned fort with orillons and loopholed casemates under the ramparts and was separated from the town by a deep moat, now silted up, cut E.-W. across the isthmus and crossed by a bridge.

Fort George, a square, bastioned work, is the best preserved earth-work of its years in New England.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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