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where when once it has laid hold of the soil. In days 

 gone by the country people used to keep utensils and 

 implements specially for bruising and breaking up the 

 gathered whins, which their cattle then devoured 

 with avidity. 



FORESTS OF DUNDREGGAN (THE MEADOW OF 



THE DRAGON), INVERWICK AND SOUTH CAENNOCROC 



BY GLENMORISTON. 



These three properties all belong to Mr. Grant 

 of Glenmoriston, and are let as one to Mr. J. G. 

 Bannatyne. The two first-named consist of 11,200 

 acres of forest and some 7,000 acres of grouse 

 ground and wood. South Caennocroc is about 

 12,000 acres of cleared ground, with a little over 

 3,000 acres of grouse ground. The forest marches 

 with Invermoriston, Inchnacardoch, Glenquoich, and 

 North Caennocroc. Part of the ground has been 

 for ages under deer, and indeed as regards this 

 particular portion there is no record that it has ever 

 been anything but deer forest. It will carry three 



