USAN, a village, in the parish of Craig, county of
Forfar, 2 miles (S. S. E.) from Montrose; containing
IG7 inhabitants. This is a small fishing-village, on the
eastern coast, north of Lunan bay, and often styled in
old records Ulysses haven. The steamers from Aberdeen
to Leith touch here in the summer. A mansion
belonging to the Keith family, to which are attached
several hundred acres of land, was built in 1820. A
quadrangular tower between twenty and thirty feet high
serves as a landmark to the fishing-boats.