INVERNESS-SHIRE. 179 



limited to forty-five stags, which average about 

 14 stone 8 lbs., clean. 



FOREST OF INVERESHIE, OR SOUTH KINRARA, OR 

 INCHRIACH, BY KINGUSSIE. 



This small forest, rented, together with the grouse 

 and low ground shootings, by Mr. Heywood Lonsdale, 

 belongs partly to The Mackintosh and partly to Sir 

 George Macpherson Grant of Ballindalloch, and 

 unless the two grounds go together — when united 

 they make some 9,000 acres — neither would be 

 of much use as deer forest, although when joined, 

 as they are at present, they yield an average kill 

 of twenty-five stags a season, with a mean weight 

 of 14 stone, clean. Invereshie marches with the 

 forest of Glenfeshie on the south, and with that 

 of Rothiemurcus on the east and north-east ; there 

 is no sanctuary, but abundance of old natural wood 

 and thick juniper for wintering. The hills are high, 

 somewhat peaked, and with stony tops. Sgorr-an- 

 dubh, the "black peak," is 3,635 feet, and Sgorr 



