142 THE DEER FORESTS OF SCOTLAND. 



rifles ; the bag is made solely by stalking, and 

 averages sixty-five stags of about 15 stone, but 

 of how they are weighed I have no information. 



FOREST OF ERCHLESS BY BEAULY. 



A beautifully situated but small Chisholm pro- 

 perty, of which some 8,000 acres are under deer. 

 On the north it marches with Scatwell Forest, on 

 the south with Urchany, on the east with sheep 

 ground, and on the west with Corriehallie. Erchless 

 — written also Erglass, Earghlas and Easterglass — 

 means in Gaelic " the grey valley," and here in his 

 castle, in 1689, the Chisholm of those days manfully 

 resisted a siege by his enemies, and it is of this 

 hero the story is told that on hearing some rival 

 chieftain spoken of with the prefix "the" attached 

 to his name, he proclaimed loudly and with in- 

 dignation that only three people in the world were 

 entitled to such distinction, namely, "the King, the 

 Pope, and the Chisholm." 



