INVERNESS-SHIRE. 



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neighbours far and near, he retraced his steps next 

 day, when the whole of the remaining MacNivens 

 were killed after a desperate resistance. 



FOREST OF CORRIECHOILLIE BY FORT WILLIAM. 



This forest belongs to Lord Abinger, and in 

 compliance with his wish I give but such meagre 

 details of it as are published for the benefit of the 

 world at large in the last blue book of " The 

 Highlands and Islands Commission." Before that 

 somewhat prejudiced, one-sided tribunal his lordship's 

 factor stated that Corriechoillie consisted of 22,500 

 acres of wild, broken, high and sterile ground, the 

 highest part of which reached an altitude of 3,990 

 feet. Afforesting was commenced in or about 1870 

 and finished in 1883, the ground now yielding forty 

 stags, but no mention was made of weights. The 

 arable lands adjoining this forest have been protected 

 from the deer by some nine miles of wire fencing. 

 The autumns at Fort William are very wet, the 

 average rainfall for the year being about 75 inches, 



