1 84 THE DEER FORESTS OF SCOTLAND. 



Wilson, being entirely surrounded by the grouse moors 

 and sheep grounds of the Duke of Richmond. It was 

 first cleared in 1875, the highest point of the 11,000 

 acres of which it consists being reached at the 

 summit of Carn-sleam-huinn, 2217 feet, while of the 

 total area no less than one-third is thick wood, 

 offering a vast dense shelter to the deer. Two 

 rifles can go out, who should kill twenty stags a 

 season, which will average 14 stone, with heart 

 and liver included. In the season of 1891 the 

 present tenant had the good fortune to secure one 

 of the best beasts shot in Kinveachy in recent years, 

 a heavy stag with fourteen good points. 



FOREST OF KNOYDART BY ISLE ORNSAY. 



This estate is of surpassing wildness and beauty, 

 being full of steep, narrow glens, with high hills 

 peaked, jagged, and fantastic in outline, with their 

 tops nearly sterile. Sgur-na-liche is the highest 

 ground and rises to 3,610 feet, but there are 

 five more hills of over 3, coo feet, and twenty- 



