56 THE DEER FORESTS OF SCOTLAND. 



in " honest theft." as deer stealing was then called 

 by the poachers, had one of his eyes put out and 

 his right arm cut off, but surviving these barbarities 

 by the aid of a strong constitution, and having an 

 ineradicable love for the chase, he yet in spite of his 

 crippled state managed to kill many more deer. This 

 vast property eventually became split up between the 

 predecessors of the present Marquis of Huntly and 

 those of the present Duke of Richmond and Gordon, 

 whose ancestor was a son of a sister of one of 

 the Lords of Huntly, and by degrees the western 

 parts of the estate were sold. The forest of Glen- 

 fiddich, which lies some dozen miles south of 

 Craigellachie on Speyside, is retained by the Duke 

 for his own use. It takes its name from the Fiddich, 

 a tributary of the Spey, which rises in and runs 

 through the whole forest, which extends to some 

 25,000 acres of moor and moss, with some small 

 quantity of wood. Although entirely surrounded by 

 sheep farms, these lands contain some high and 

 rough ground, Corryhavvie being over 2,500 feet, 



