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and Cook's Cairn just under that height. It has been 

 a forest from time immemorial, and will easily carry 

 two rifles every day of the season, while as it is very 

 carefully shot, no sanctuary is required. No driving 

 is done. Lovat mixture is the best coloured cloth 

 to wear, and the annual average kill is fifty stags, 

 which are weighed clean, but information has not 

 reached me as to the mean weight. 



FOREST OF GLENAVON BY BALLINDALLOCII. 



This fine forest, of which the late Lord Henry 

 Bentinck was for a long time the tenant, is at present 

 rented by Mr. Godman, and marching on the north 

 with the forests of Abernethy and Glenmore, on 

 the south it runs with those of Mar and Invercauld. 

 It contains 40,000 acres of wild rocky ground, in 

 which lie some of the highest hills in Scotland, and 

 on their steep sides several pairs of eagles nest each 

 season. 



Ben Macdhui, 4,296 feet, Cairn Gorm, 4,084 feet, 

 and Ben Avon, 3,845 feet, together with many other 



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