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of hills nearly as high — very steep and very stony. 

 Of late years it has not been let, and it is essentially 

 a young man's forest, for each day in it is nothing 

 more or less than stalking a succession of gigantic 

 sugar loaves, and the stalker has no sooner toiled to 

 the top of one hill than he finds he has to descend 

 and mount a fresh one equally high and equally steep. 

 From the nature of the ground many shots have to 

 be fired nearly directly down hill, but, nevertheless, 

 it is a grand little forest for anyone who is still on 

 the right side of fifty. 



GLEN-ETIVE FOREST BY TAYNUILT. 



This is a small forest belonging to Mr. E. S. 

 Greaves, situated at the head of Loch Etive and 

 marching on the north with Dalness ; the remainder 

 of the forest marches on the other three sides with 

 very rough sheep ground. It has not been afforested 

 many years, and I have not been able to obtain any 

 authentic information as to the number of deer killed 

 each season. 



