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 DALCltOSS CASTLE FOURTH PERIOD wing contained stables and offices, the object of this kitchen has appar- ently been to supply food to the servants and retainers. The estate of Auchans was acquired in 1640 from the Wallaces of Dimdonald, by Sir William Cochrane, afterwards Earl of Dundonald. From the date of 1644, carved on one of the windows of the north wing, the mansion seems to have been erected immediately afterwards by the Earl. It has now passed into the hands of the Earl of Eglinton. In 1773 Dr. Johnson and Boswell spent a day here for the purpose of visiting the Dowager Countess of Eglinton, who died at Auchans in the year 1780, in her ninety-first year. DALCROSS CASTLE, INVERNESS-SHIRE. This castle occupies a commanding position, about eight miles east from Inverness, on a hill nearly three miles south from the Moray Firth, over which it has a splendid view. It was here that the Royal troops were marshalled before the battle of Culloden. The castle was built by the eighth Lord Lovat in 1621. It afterwards came into the FIG. 637. Dalcross Castle. Plans. possession of the M'Intoshes, whose arms have been placed in a shield over the entrance door, with the date 1720 (Fig. 637). But this is evidently an insertion executed about the time when the north wing was added. The plan of the castle (Fig. 637) is somewhat unusual. Its general