IN VERNESS -SHIRE. 1 27 



The hill of Benevrich — Ben-y-vricht or Ben Vreek 



— the Corrie of Corriecraegacht or Corriecraegus, 



and the braes of Loch Treig have ever been famed 



for their deer, and it was of this ground the 



old Scotch hunter-bard sang when so pathetically 



bemoaning in Gaelic his old age, in the well translated 



poem commencing — 



" Great was my love in youth and strong my desire 

 Towards the bounding herds, 

 But now broken and weak and helpless, 

 Their remembrance wounds my heart." 



In days gone by when I stalked at Corrour with the 

 late Mr. Henry Spencer Lucy, the whole ground was 

 not afforested. Corrie Craegus, Corrie Vallich, Corrie- 

 na-cloich, with the Green Face, which joined Ben 

 Alder and Rannoch, were cleared ground, and there 

 the most of our deer were got, but Ben Eibhinn, 

 3,611 feet, and Ben-na-lapt, 3,060 feet, have both 

 been put under deer since those days, so that pro- 

 bably the present kill is nearly double to what it 

 was then, when two rifles used to average twenty-five 

 stags a season, scaling about 14 stone 12 lbs. clean. 



