Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . he part of The Tyrant of the Cuchullin Hills, oneechoes the poets aspiration that these birds may long flourishunder the protection of MacLeod. Then, after putting in at LochBracadale, we skirt MacLeods Maidens and Idrigill (for a whilethe prison of Lady Grange) ; and after that there ensues a periodof most tumultuous pitchings and tossings, till the ship hasrounded Dunvegan Head (where the cliffs stand up tremen-dously precipitous against the lowering sun), and enters a placidreach, quickly becoming narrowed up by islets and peninsulas,a
Other famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . he part of The Tyrant of the Cuchullin Hills, oneechoes the poets aspiration that these birds may long flourishunder the protection of MacLeod. Then, after putting in at LochBracadale, we skirt MacLeods Maidens and Idrigill (for a whilethe prison of Lady Grange) ; and after that there ensues a periodof most tumultuous pitchings and tossings, till the ship hasrounded Dunvegan Head (where the cliffs stand up tremen-dously precipitous against the lowering sun), and enters a placidreach, quickly becoming narrowed up by islets and peninsulas,and eventually almost terminating at the quay. Leaving the waterside, the carriage-drive passes in amongtrees, where the song-birds, ferns, and foliage so obliterate allsense of the water, that a steamers hooter would seem as out ofplace as the sea-serpent; but before one is reconciled to the start-ling change of scene, the castle is approached, and proves to havelost nothing of its ancient welcome, though no piper is in waitingwith The MacLeod 41 42 DunvcGan Castle What was formerly the back is now the front. The oldestpart is the Keep, and one would like to think Armuinn built itPerhaps it occupies the same site ; perhaps the very stones wererelaid on the old foundation ; perhaps pieces of the ancient wallswere utilised ; but, as a whole, the well-built masonry seems toforbid an earlier date than the time of Leods grandson, who wasgranted a charter of Glenelg in 1343. (Another charter of 1498shows that the island estates were then held on condition ofkeeping in readiness for the Kings use a twenty-six-oared lym-
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