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to be very slow, for in order to reach assistance, he 

 was compelled most reluctantly to leave his father, 

 who was still breathing ; a terrible snow-storm then 

 came on, and when at length the search party 

 arrived near the scene of the disaster, much precious 

 time was wasted in seeking out the exact spot 

 where poor Clarke had been left ; which, when it was 

 at length found, only disclosed, on the removal of the 

 snow, the forester's body frozen stiff beneath its 

 white shroud. 



Ben Alder, afforested in 1838, had the Marquis 

 of Abercorn for its first tenant, and since then, 

 in addition to others, Lord Henry Bentinck, the 

 Earl of Zetland, Mr. Gretton and Baron J. W. H. 

 Schroder have each been tenants of this forest. 

 For many years it yielded from ninety to one 

 hundred stags each season, a total which has not 

 of late years been maintained. In 1886, when 

 Baron Schroder had it, he killed, with a view to 

 nursing, but thirty-one stags, which made the fine 

 average of 16 stone clean, and by degrees, under 



