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At altitudes of 1,500 to 1,800 feet growth is considerably less than it 
is lower down. 
Forestry operations are carried on by about 40 permanent 
men and about as many others imported from Skye for 
9 months of the year. he permanent men have houses on 
the estate and the temporary hands are provided with bothies. 
Furniture, house linen, &c., are supplied to the latter, and tradesmen 
visit them twice a week with provisions. When winter sets in the 
return to Skye, reappearing for the commencement of the planting 
season in April, 
e cost per acre for planting on the Ardverikie estate is 
given as follows :— 
eta: a, 
Price of plants 114 0 
»» labour es" 0 
5 draining ome aaa 
» fencing bo 0 
23-12 0 
INVERGARRY. 
This estate, the property of Mrs. Ellice, formerly belonged to the 
Macdonells of Glengarry, and the ruins of the old castle are still in 
their possession, The rock on which the old castle stands is famous 
as the gathering place of the Macdonells of Glengarry, and their 
war-cry—* Creagan an Fhithick’”—the Rock of the Raven, is 
taken from it. Invergarry House stands a short distance from the 
old castle and is pleasantly situated amongst the well-wooded hills 
which surround Loch Oich. The altitude of the woods hereabouts 
which is sometimes so conspicuous in southern woods, is almost 
absent at Invergarry. The most common trees are larch, Scots 
pine, spruce, silver fir, oak, birch, and sycamore. Attention was 
directed to a larch wood 25 years old. This, a few years after 
being planted, was so badly infested with larch disease that it was 
condemned, The forester, however, begged that it should be given 
a further trial and it gradually grew out of the disease. The trunks 
now are perfectly clean and straight and are about 40 feet high. 
Four consecutive trees girthed at 4 feet from the ground, 2 feet, 
2 feet 2 inches, 1 foot 7 inches and 2 feet 34 inches, respectively. 
Fine, mature larch were noted in several places. Two which were 
measured were 97 feet high by 8 feet 8 inches in girth at 5 feet 
above the ground and 107 feet high by 8 feet in girth respectively. 
Many tall spruce were noted which girthed upwards of 6 feet, 
whilst Abies nobilis was 97 feet high and 7 feet 7 inches in girth. 
The age of the last named is 40 years. Sycamores grow to a large 
