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morning we were both out at break of day, but 

 never again did we see this splendid head of fourteen 

 points, each of which was a real big one, neither 

 were we ever able to hear of any record of his death. 

 Sir John Stirling Maxwell is now building a new 

 house on the shores of Loch Ossian in the centre 

 of the ground ; there is a railway station close by, 

 probably the inevitable hotel will follow, while the 

 absolutely solitary hills and glens I knew so well 

 will sooner or later become the resort of the tourist 

 and the angler. 



FOREST OF CUCHULLIN BY SLIGACHAN, ISLE OF SKYE. 



This forest, belonging to Macleod of Macleod, 

 and rented at present by Mr. M. B. Byles, covers 

 some 35,000 acres, on which there is much high, 

 rocky and broken ground. It is, however, only a 

 forest in name, for, although the corries are splendid 

 and well suited for deer, the tourists from Sligachan 

 are all over the ground on their way to Loch 

 Coruisk, Scuir-na-Gillian and Corrie-na-Creiche, and 



