. The "Red and white" book of ere constructed without lime or mortar, but thestones have been regularly coursed and banded. The precipitousness of the loftypart of the rock on which its remains stand made it all but inaccessible on thesouth and east sides, on which the walls have been built at the edge of the north and west sides had been defended by trenches and other outworks, 148 THE RED 6- WHITE BOOK OE MENZIES. [ i502-1508. which may yet be traced. The walls are 9 feet thick at their base standing atC D, and must have been \2 or 15 feet high, and are remarkable fo
. The "Red and white" book of ere constructed without lime or mortar, but thestones have been regularly coursed and banded. The precipitousness of the loftypart of the rock on which its remains stand made it all but inaccessible on thesouth and east sides, on which the walls have been built at the edge of the north and west sides had been defended by trenches and other outworks, 148 THE RED 6- WHITE BOOK OE MENZIES. [ i502-1508. which may yet be traced. The walls are 9 feet thick at their base standing atC D, and must have been \2 or 15 feet high, and are remarkable for the hugedimensions of the stones they are constructed with. These have been built in such away that their dead weight, from their great size, has kept them immovable forover a thousand years at least. On the west side of the fort there is a hollow, atthe bottom of which is a spring of water 25 feet deep, from which its ancientAleinericJi defenders drew their supply.—Transactions, Society of Antiquaries ofScot., p. 360-1, vol. PLAN OF THE ANCIENT MENZIES PORT— CAISTEAL MAC TUTHAL —ON DRUMMOND HILL. It is thought to have been erected and used by the ancient Mcnzies whenthey held the mines under the Crown ; although there are other traditions,that a certain son of the Abbot of Dunkeld named UlacTual—whose name isof frequent occurrence in Celtic legends and songs—lived there about abbot may have been one of the scholastic Menzies of that time. Be thatas it may, this stronghold was of great importance to Clan Menzies duringthe troublous times of Wallace and Bruce, as it stood in the centre of the 1502-1508.] THE VENERABLE CHIEF. 149 Menzies possessions, and from it, looking east, a view of the whole Appin orstrath, as well as Grandtully Castle, Aberfeldy, Castle Menzies, Weem, theAppin-Jia-D/iii ; as also Garth Castle and Carnban Castle to the north and north-west ; the castle of the Isle of Loch Ta)% and Castle Mains at Ardeonaig to thesouth-west
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