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[continued from page 9a] not reocupy it, and from the incursion
of McLeods natural sons assisted by the Natives
in which many were slain the Island was
sold to the Suitor of Kintail for a Sum of about
fifty Ponds of our Sterling money and it has
untill the last three years remained in the poss
sion of the Mackenzies or family of Seaforth but
the Castle was not rebuilt

Dear Sir,

You have the only accounts
of the Castle and its demolition that
I could glean from the Old natives as
handed down from Genration to Generation
and which accords with a statement I per
ceived many years past in an Old Scots
chronicle published in the early part of the
17th Century

I am dear Sir
Yr obed Servt [Your obedient Servant]
Alexander Green
Stornoway 22nd Jany [January] 1850