70 THE DEER FORESTS OF SCOTLAND. 



cleared ground. As showing how far deer will travel 

 when there is no barrier against them, such as 

 is made by a railway, Donald mentions that in 

 1873 a three-horned stag was shot in Langwell by 

 Mr. Monckton which had been shot at in Inchbae 

 forest by Garve, in Ross-shire, in 1868; there is no 

 chance of any mistake, for Donald Ross knew the 

 stag well, and so it turned out did his brother, John 

 Ross, who was at that time stalker in Inchbae to 

 my old friend, Major Vaughan Lee. The railway 

 having cut off the interchange of blood with other 

 forests, park deer from Welbeck were introduced to 

 Langwell in 1877, and right well they have answered 

 their purpose. 



