170 THE DEER FORESTS OF SCOTLAND. 



shores of the north end of Loch Lochy was fought, 

 in 1544, the celebrated battle of Blar-nan-leine, or 

 "The Field of Shirts," in which Lord Lovat and 

 his eldest son, together with three hundred Frasers, 

 were routed and slain by the Clanronald. That 

 day, the 3rd of July, being unusually hot, both 

 sides stripped to their shirts before commencing 

 the fray, in which five hundred of the Clanronald 

 men were faced by but three hundred of the Frasers, 

 tradition relating that only four of the Frasers with ten 

 of the Clanronald survived the contest, while had it 

 not been that later on eighty of the wives of eighty 

 of the slain men presented eighty fatherless sons to 

 the clan Fraser, there would have been great danger 

 of the total annihilation of this old sept. 



FOREST OF GLENMORE BY AVIEM0RE. 



This nice forest, formed in 1859, and covering 

 some 15,000 acres, is the property of the Duke of 

 Richmond and Gordon, by whom it is at present let 

 to the Earl of Zetland. On three sides it joins other 



