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of forested land, in addition to which there is about 

 10,000 acres of extra good grouse ground. On 

 the west and south-west these lands march with 

 Glenmuick, Glendoll, and the Hunthill sheep walks ; 

 on the south-east they spread away up to the summit 

 of Mount Keen, 3,000 feet, on the watershed of which 

 hill the boundaries run with the forest of Glen Tana. 

 There is a good road from Brechin to Invermark 

 Lodge, a distance of twenty-two miles, over which I 

 made several pleasant journeys in the autumns of 

 1884 and 1885, when the late Sir Robert B. Harvey 

 leased this forest and I had the good fortune to be 

 one of his guests. About a mile before reaching 

 the present house of Invermark the road passes 

 the ruins of the old castle, formerly a stronghold 

 of the Lindsays and most picturesquely placed on 

 the banks of the North Esk. 



The forest is divided into three beats ; over the 

 southern one John Mitchell, the head forester, used 

 to preside when I was at Invermark ; John Mac- 

 gregor ruled over the north beat, and a third man 



