Matheson Collection > Macleods of Dunvegan from the time of Leod to the end of the seventeenth century

192 THE MACLEODS OF DUNVEGAN
were put on in 1840. The thirteen cost ;^ioo each. If we
compare the old prints, in which they do not occur, with
modern photographs in which they do appear, in my
opinion they are a great improvement.
From what I have written it clearly appears that
during the last four hundred years six Chiefs have left
enduring monuments for themselves in the work they
did on the castle.
We cannot guess what Alastair Crottach and Rory Mor
spent on the castle. The receipts still preserved in the
muniment room induce me to think that Ian Breac spent
at least the equivalent of £5000 in modern money. The
stone which, with a transcript and translation of the in-
scription, is now built into the wall in the long passage
shows that he felt an honest pride in his work. The
General's bill to Mr. Boak, his architect, amounted to
£3()4i, IIS. I id. His son spent about ;^40oo. The
twenty-second Chief spent £8000. The present Chief
has spent large sums in repairs.
I add a table of dates :
The keep and lower part of tower (re-
stored 1790) and the sea-gate . 9th century
The upper part of the tower . . . 1840
The two low towers at the north end of
the rock on site of the north wing of 1790 1840
The Fairy Tower .... 1490
Rory Mor's wing (altered 1665, 1790. and
1840) 1620
The south wing (flat roof in place of a
gable, 1812) 1685
The drive and front hall . . . 1812
The tourelles or pepper-boxes . . 1840
The battlements round the courtyard . 1790
The bridge below the south end of the rock 1790
The space left by Rory Mor between the
keep and his wing filled in . . . 1790