Excerpt from Ordnance Gazetteer of Scotland, 1885, Vol. 3: A Survey of Scottish Topography, Statistical, Biographical, and Historical Macleod's Castle, an ancient fortress in Stornoway parish, Lewis, Outer Hebrides, Ross-shire, at the entrance of Stornoway Bay. Built by the ancient proprietors of Lewis to protect the bay, and dismantled by the troops of Oliver Cromwell, it is now represented by only a fragment of wall 12 feet high and 4 thick. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.