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on Loch Hourn during the season ; they are, how- 

 ever, exceptionally heavy ones, the top-weight of the 

 lot scaling 20 stone 7 lbs., clean. The Loch Hourn 

 division is kept by the proprietor for his own sport, 

 while Arnisdale is let each season, the present tenant 

 being Mr. Sellar, and it yields, off much the same 

 extent and nature of ground, a nearly similar kill 

 as Loch Hourn. 



Both these forests are subject to the very heavy 

 rainfall of over one hundred inches a year, deep lies 

 the snow in winter, while the cold is often so intense 

 as to freeze the salt water of Loch Hourn. The hills 

 rise so abruptly from the sea that within half a mile 

 of the shore they reach 2,000 ft. in height, and there 

 are several peaks that exceed 3,000 ft. In some of 

 the valleys the sun only shines during the longest 

 days of summer, while at Loch Hourn head, as early 

 as November, the sun sets at one o'clock, and in 

 winter this is, indeed, a country in which the would-be 

 weather-wise "might easily perish by conceit of their 

 own fancied knowledge." Often also hay may be 



