126 THE DEER FORESTS OF SCOTLAND. 



April being the driest month, while the bulk of the 

 moisture descends from September to February, 

 which must interfere somewhat with the pleasures 

 of stalking just at the very best of the season. 

 It was through Corriechoillie that Montrose marched 

 into Glen Nevis with his army on the ist of 

 February, 1645, to fight the battle of Inverlochy 

 with the Duke of Argyll, whose army, panic-stricken 

 by the first onset, fled in all directions and were 

 much cut up by the victorious Highlanders, many 

 of the fugitives being overtaken and killed in 

 Corriechoillie. 



CORROUR WITH BENEVRICH BY KINLOCH RANNOCH. 



These lands were purchased not very long ago 

 by Sir John Stirling Maxwell from Colonel Walker, 

 and extend to over 30,000 acres of every description 

 of ground, which, until the recent railway to Fort 

 William was brought through the moor of Rannoch, 

 was always a "remote and inaccessible" part of 

 Scotland, 



