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Chapter III. 

 BANFFSHIRE. 



FOREST OF GLENFIDDICH, BY DUFFTOWN. 



There are but two deer forests in this county, both 

 belonging to the Duke of Richmond and Gordon. 

 Prior however to 1745, the Earls of Huntly owned 

 all the country lying between Ben Avon in Banffshire, 

 right across Scotland to Ben Nevis, a distance of 

 some seventy miles, and in this tract were included 

 the districts of Glenmore, Glen Feshie, Gaick, 

 Drumchalder, Ben Alder, and Loch Treig, in all 

 some 200 square miles. This vast property the 

 Earls of Huntly ruled with absolute power, and 

 severe were the penalties these chieftains made 

 against deer poaching ; men were hung for the offence, 

 and history relates that one John Our, being detected 



