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knew he had got a head the like of which has, perhaps, 

 never before been seen in Scotland. The Honble. 

 Nellie Bass and Mr. Baillie of Dochfour were both 

 witnesses of this good shot, and when they were 

 married, the people of Glenquoich and Glengarry gave 

 them as an appropriate wedding present the head and 

 figure of the great stag most correctly modelled 

 in silver. 



When the Macdonnells owned this fine tract of 

 wild country for over two hundred years, it was the 

 scene of incessant bloodshed and strife ; for the Clan 

 Ranald and the Clan Mackenzie of Kintail were ever 

 at loggerheads, and neither appears to have had 

 sufficient preponderating force to deal to the other 

 a death-blow. That the Macdonnells were entitled to 

 be proud of their sept is quite certain, for, after the 

 Campbells, they were the most numerous and powerful 

 of all the others, and so greatly was this fact impressed 

 on one ancient chieftain of Glengarry, that on an 

 occasion when he unexpectedly arrived at a feast 

 given by a neighbour, apologies were made to him 



