A BERDEENSHIRE. 



FOREST OF GLEN TANA BY ABOYNE. 



This forest, the property of Sir William Cunliffe 

 Brooks, takes its name from the river Tana which runs 

 through it: Tana signifying "small" or "shallow," 

 as compared with the mighty Dee in which it loses 

 itself about a mile above Aboyne suspension bridge. 

 It is not to be called Glen "Tanner" as if it were 

 the haunt of the hide dresser or the Cockney glen 

 of sixpence, and neither is it spelt with an r as if 

 it were " Annar Mariar." Tana is a Gaelic word, and 

 there is the same one with the same significance in 

 Welsh, viz. tanen — likewise tonos in Greek and tiny 

 in English. With an area of some 22,000 acres, 

 it is about thirteen miles long by some seven at the 

 greatest breadth, the low-lying parts being splendidly 

 timbered, chiefly with Scotch fir, which portions are 

 well fenced off from the arable lands around Aboyne. 

 From these low-lying lands the forest gradually 

 spreads to the west and south-west until it reaches 

 the 3077 feet summit of Mount Keen, where it marches 

 with Invermark Forest. 



