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Glentromie Lodge, about eight miles from Gaick, 

 and only three from Kingussie, is usually let with the 

 forest, and with this there goes some 11,000 acres 

 of most excellent grouse shooting, the two places 

 combined making one of the best of the many fine 

 sporting estates of Scotland. 



FOREST OF GLENCANNICH BY BEAULY. 



This is one of the Chisholm forests, of which I 

 regret having no particular information. On the 

 north it marches with Monar and Braulen, on the 

 west with Attadale and Patt, on the south with 

 Benula and Fasnakyle, and sheep ground bounds 

 it on the east. The glens of Affaric and Cannich 

 are both very steep and narrow, and Longart at 

 the head of Glencannich is perhaps the wettest 

 place in all Scotland, and for this reason the river 

 Glass, a tributary of the Beauly, is subject to most 

 violently sudden floods from heavy rains or melting 

 snow, which renders any cultivation of the low- 

 lying lands on the banks of the river not only 



