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by observant men, who went about the country, in their own 
way, just as they were doing at the present time, to gather 
information about their forests and woodlands, and the various 
methods of managing them. They were now doing a good work, 
and he hoped they would go on and prosper. If they should 
ever retura to Elgin, he hoped that they would give him timely 
warning, so that he might endeavour to give them a still better 
reception than he was able to do on this occasion. 
A number of other appropriate toasts were proposed and 
replied to; aad a pleasant evening was spent. 
THIRD DAY. 
Thursday, 9th August. 
THE CULLEN ESTATES. 
Favoured with weather of a most enjoyable nature, a refresh- 
ing breeze tempering the great heat which had prevailed during 
the two previous days in the north, the Members again set out 
from Elgin at an early hour, in order to overtake the various 
items on the day’s programme. Elgin was left by the 6.40 a.m. 
train for Cullen, there to inspect the woodlands of the Countess 
Dowager of Seafield at Cullen House. 
Shortly after leaving Elgin, the route lay almost due east, 
passing through a good agricultural country, well sheltered with 
woods and hedgerows, and said to be one of the earliest districts 
in Scotland. The chief landowner is the Duke of Fife, whose 
Morayshire residence, Innes House, lay about 2 miles off on 
the left, between Leuchars and Urquhart railway stations. The 
next object of note was the village of Garmouth, at the mouth 
of the Spey, which was of great interest to the arborists, as being 
at one time noted for its shipbuilding and extensive export of 
timber, which had been floated down the Spey in rafts from the 
forests of Abernethy, Glenmore, Glenfishie, Rothiemurchus, and 
others in Strathspey. When most of these forests became 
exhausted of their original crop of Scots pine, the timber trade 
and shipbuilding at the mouth of the Spey declined in importance, 
although there was still a considerable amount of business done 
in the export of local timber, and a little in shipbuilding. 
