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south-east it marches with Meoble, on the north-east 

 with Lochiel sheep ground, while it touches Knoydart 

 on the north. The kill is limited to thirty-five 

 stags a season, which average nearly 16 stone 

 clean, and in 1893 the present tenant, Mr. F. W. Gill, 

 of Oswestry, made a remarkable bit of stalking and 

 good shooting, as after getting up to a company 

 of ten big stags he killed eight of them, which 

 averaged 17 stone 7 lbs. clean. 



Towards the end of the fifteenth century this 

 ground of Morar witnessed many battles and single 

 combats between the members of the Glengarry clan 

 and that of the Mackenzies of Kintail ; and later 

 on, in 1745, after Culloden, Simon Fraser, Lord 

 Lovat, hid himself here for a considerable time in a 

 hollow tree. It was also in Morar, at the south end 

 of Loch Nevis, where the present estates of Knoydart 

 and Morar join, that Prince Charles landed, when 

 making his escape from the Isle of Skye, and so 

 hot was the pursuit in these out-of-the-way regions, 

 that he was forced to pass three nights in the open 



