204 THE DEER FORESTS OF SCOTLAND. 



Atholl now remains the only forest where the use 

 of the kilt is still strictly adhered to. During the 

 present Duke's time this small alteration in dress, 

 together with the abolition of deer drives, have 

 been the only changes made in the forest manage- 

 ment since rifles and spyglasses first came into use. 

 Towards the end of the fifteenth century saltpetre 

 was being burnt on the hill, one Angus Baillie, 

 of Uppat, having the credit of killing deer early 

 in that century with his "glasnabhean," or mountain 

 match-lock, although the rifle's helpmate, the spyglass, 

 did not come into use before 1777. 



When Mr. Scrope stayed in Atholl, deer drives 

 on a large scale often took place, and spirited indeed 

 are his descriptions of them, while equally enter- 

 taining also are his narrations of the adventures and 

 hardships to be faced by the stalker ; but whether he 

 discourses of stalking or driving, one cannot but 

 notice the great number of stags he and his friends 

 wounded, only to be eventually secured after a 

 lengthy pursuit, and it has always seemed to me that 



