. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . dpepper-pot angle-turrets, which to English ideas suggests a tall,narrow, semi-fortified house rather than a castle. It might per-haps have been done up and added to ; but was considered poorand mean, and taken down about 1760. And be it said, in pass-ing, that, in his description of the Chapel, in the Legend of Mon-trose, what Sir Walter had in his mind was the Chapel atNaworth ; which was as he describes in his day, but having beenburnt out by a fire, it has more recently been modernised into aLibrary. Immediately on the destruction of
. More famous homes of Great Britain and their stories . dpepper-pot angle-turrets, which to English ideas suggests a tall,narrow, semi-fortified house rather than a castle. It might per-haps have been done up and added to ; but was considered poorand mean, and taken down about 1760. And be it said, in pass-ing, that, in his description of the Chapel, in the Legend of Mon-trose, what Sir Walter had in his mind was the Chapel atNaworth ; which was as he describes in his day, but having beenburnt out by a fire, it has more recently been modernised into aLibrary. Immediately on the destruction of old Inveraray, thepresent Castle was planned, a bowshot off; and when completedwas the largest and grandest domestic building north of theTweed. Quadrangular in ground-plan, with a circular turret run-ning up each corner, it is a storey higher than it looks, from thebasement being below ground level. The principal rooms aregrouped round a central Hall open to the roof and lighted by apavilion. In the Hall, arranged in pleasing devices about the walls,. 317 ,iS flnverarap above and below, are stands of tasselled halberds, used in attend-ance upon that office of Justiciary of Argyll and the Isles whichwas hereditary in this family until its abolition in 1746, when thesum of .£21,000 was paid the Earl of Islay as compensation. Also, some of the flint-locks as supplied by theEnglish Government forArgylls men, in the much more note-worthy are the olderarms. One realiseswhat terrible antagon-ists were those half-heathen mountaineers,as Macaulay is bold tocall them, with theirclaymores, targets, andLochaber axes. Whatthe claymore could do,and did, was shown atInverlochy, when Don-ald nan Ord, an Athol man, slew nineteen Campbells with hisown hand; and at Culloden, when William Chisholm, ofStrathglas, killed sixteen of the enemy, three of them the small, round, tastefully studded Gaelic target was notcontent with being merely for defence ; it was often furnishedw
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