text:  Talk of picturesqueness! this was picturesque enough for poet or painter with a vengeance--great thick walls all covered over with ivy crowning a round knoll at the upper part of the town and looking over a finer view we will venture to say than that we have just described as seen from Ragland; and to complete the beauty of it--the comforts of modern civilization uniting themselves to ancient magnificence--the main walls have been fitted up by one of the late lords into a pretty dwelling-house which is at this moment occupied by one of the surgeons of the town