THE 



DEER FORESTS OF SCOTLAND,..:.. 





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Chapter I. 



ABERDEENSHIRE. 



In this county there are only five deer forests, but 

 as they spread over an area of some 230,000 acres, 

 it will be seen that, though numerically small, they 

 are very large in extent. Taking them then m 

 alphabetical order, there comes first : — 



HER MAJESTY'S FORESTS OF BALMORAL, BALLOCHBUIE, 

 AND ABERGELDIE. 



This latter ground is rented from Mr. Hugh 

 Mackay Gordon, and the three forests together 

 represent an area extending to about 50,000 acres 

 of lofty mountains covered with moss and grey 



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