1 86 THE DEER FORESTS OF SCOTLAND. 



over half this number, as the severe winter destroyed 

 many good beasts, no less than thirty-eight having 

 been found dead, and of course all the carcases 

 were not discovered ; of these fifty stags shot in '94, 

 five were royals, nine had eleven points, and twenty- 

 one had ten. Knoydart marches on the land side 

 with Glenquoich and North Morar, having, in addi- 

 tion to a small sanctuary, some useful woods for 

 wintering. From the earliest days of the Mac- 

 donnells Knoydart has seen a great deal of clan 

 warfare. In 1643 Alexander Macdonald, (the cele- 

 brated Colkitto of John Milton), a Highland relation 

 of the Earl of Antrim, landed in Knoydart with 

 a force of Irish for the assistance of Montrose, 

 and joining him, they shared in all his victories and 

 formed part of his troops when the Marquis made 

 that remarkable forced march over the snow-clad 

 hills between Fort Augustus and Ben Nevis, which 

 the day following led to the surprise and nearly 

 total annihilation of Argyll's army at Inverlochy. 

 The last bloodshed that took place in Knoydart was 



