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stags stay chiefly in Kingairloch, while Glensanda is 

 more useful for keeping hinds and nursery purposes. 

 The deer are weighed quite clean, and a stone is 

 then added to the weight for the heart and liver, 

 and thus estimated they averaged 14 stone for season 

 '94, the heaviest of the lot weighing 19 stone 2 lbs. 



FOREST OF JURA BY PORTASKAIG. 



This beautiful western isle, described by Sir 

 Thomas Turner in 1640 as "that horrible island only 

 fit for the habitation of deer and wild beasts," now 

 contains the largest, best and most southern of the 

 island deer forests. Owned by Mr. James Campbell 

 of Jura, it has been rented for many years past by 

 Mr. Henry Evans of Derby, who has taken the 

 greatest pride and interest in the deer, while from the 

 unrivalled facilities an island forest offers for the 

 purposes of observation, he has been enabled to throw 

 considerable fresh light on their natural history, and 

 the result of these investigations Mr. Evans has 

 garnered together in the shape of a small book called 



