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FOREST OF CAENNOCROC (NORTH) BY GLENMORISTON. 



This is a good forest, belonging to Mr. J. M. Grant 

 of Glenmoriston, and is at present let to Lord Tweed- 

 mouth, who works it in conjunction with his own forest 

 of Guisachan. Cleared early in the century, it consists 

 of some 21,000 acres of fine corries, excellent grazing 

 and good stalking ground, the highest point of which 

 is Sgur-nan-Coubhairean, 3,682 feet. There is a 

 good-sized sanctuary and a small amount of wood, 

 which is, however, not much used by the deer for 

 winter shelter, as the lower lying woods of Glen- 

 moriston offer better quarters, to which most of the 

 North Caennocroc deer wend their way in hard 

 weather. This forest will carry three rifles, and, 

 independently of Guisachan, should yield upwards 

 of seventy-five heavy stags each season. 



A rising ground near Caennocroc is still pointed 

 out as the scene of the battle in 1647 between the 

 Camerons and the Gordons, led by the Marquis of 

 Huntly ; and according to the glen tradition, Huntly. 



