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struck by a big sea. Stern, white, angular and 

 uncompromisingly plain, Gaick forest lodge stands 

 out by itself against a background of peat, heather, 

 and green hill, towards which it turns its pallid 

 front. Near the back of the lodge is the sanctuary 

 of some two square miles on the shore of Loch- 

 an-t-Seillich, by some erroneously called Gaick Loch, 

 in which the natives vow there dwells a giant 

 species of fish called Dorman or Dormain ; powerful 

 fellows with very big heads, who, the legend says, 

 pass their lives in trying to hinder the salmon from 

 the Tromie from entering the loch, but in this they 

 are not always successful, for Mr. John Hargreaves 

 tells me he has caught salmon above the loch. 

 Facing the house, but further up the valley, are Loch 

 Vrotten and Loch-an-duin. At the back of the first- 

 named loch the Doune hill rises sharply from the 

 waterside to 1,000 feet, and has a remarkable appear- 

 ance, as it is somewhat in the shape of a house, 

 but there are many higher hills in Gaick, amongst 

 them " Stac-meall-na-Cuaich," " the hill of the cup," 



