162 THE DEER FORESTS OF SCOTLAND. 



whole immediate district around Kil Chuimein, or the 

 present Fort Augustus, became but one hundred 

 and fifty years ago the scene of atrocities which, if 

 historians are to be believed, nearly equalled those 

 Armenian horrors against which all civilized Europe 

 is at present indignantly protesting. 



FOREST OF GLENFESHIE BY KINGUSSIE. 



This most excellent forest, so seldom in the market, 

 belongs jointly to The Mackintosh and Sir George 

 Macpherson Grant of Ballindalloch ; this last-named 

 gentleman owns the larger portion, but unless the 

 two properties are let as one, Glenfeshie would not 

 be the good forest it is. Mr. Macpherson of 

 Ballindalloch purchased his part of the forest in 

 1812 from the Duke of Gordon. For the past 

 four seasons it has been rented by the Baron J. W. 

 H. Schroder, and covers some 38,000 acres, in which 

 however is included about 12,000 acres of grouse 

 and low ground shooting. More than two parties 

 are never sent to the forest, which is essentially 



