59 



Chapter IV. 



BUTESHIRE. 



Here there is but a single forest, the celebrated one of 

 Arran, belonging, but a short time past, to the late Duke 

 of Hamilton, and left by him to his infant daughter, 

 the Lady Mary Louise Douglas-Hamilton. Although 

 there have ever been a few deer in Arran, it was 

 first regularly afforested in February, 1859, and in 

 that month Captain Robert Sandeman took to the 

 island, for the late Duke, fourteen hinds in calf, 

 along with six young stags from Knowsley Park, 

 and now deer are more or less over the whole 

 property, although they stay chiefly between 

 Brodick Castle and the Lodge of Dubhgharadh, 

 in which latter part there is the sanctuary of some 

 3,000 acres, while at Brodick a quantity of natural 



