96 THE DEER FORESTS OF SCOTLAND. 



head as one could wish to see. Eagles nest each 

 season in this forest, and under the watchful eye 

 of Frederick McAulay, the head forester, they are 

 never molested. Although Stornoway is the post 

 town of Amhuinsuidh House, so beautifully placed 

 on the sea-shore, it is more easily reached by those 

 coming from the south by steamer from Oban to 

 East Loch Tarbert. 



FOREST OF ARDVERIKIE BY KINGUSSIE. 



Of this place I have not been able to collect any 

 authentic details. In my map of the deer forests it 

 is put down as containing 26,990 acres, with the 

 greatest altitude 3,569 feet. On the south-west it 

 marches with the forest of Ben Alder — the only forest 

 which it joins — so that probably the deer of Ard- 

 verikie and those of Ben Alder are one and the same 

 animal, and the stags of this latter place are famed 

 for their bodies and heads. Ardverikie is always let 

 each season, and has had a good many tenants during 

 the last twenty years. It belongs to Sir James 



