214 THE DEER FORESTS OF SCOTLAND. 



half-an-hour, the poor beast suddenly rolled down the 

 hill stone dead ! 



FOREST OF RANNOCH LODGE, KINLOCH RANNOCH. 



This is another of the properties of Sir Robert 

 Menzies, which has been cleared for a considerable 

 time. It is fine wild ground with several very 

 large bold corries, holding both stags and hinds, 

 and one rifle can go out in any wind, although at 

 the end of the season a second rifle can usually take 

 the hill when it blows from a suitable airt. The 

 whole estate is some 24,000 acres, beautifully placed 

 at the head of Loch Rannoch, of which 12,000 is 

 forest, marching with Corrour and Ben Alder, with a 

 sanctuary of 2,000 acres, the remainder being sheep 

 and grouse ground. Five hundred acres have re- 

 cently been planted on Loch Ericht side, where the 

 trees are doing well, which, when once the deer can 

 be admitted, will prove a great shelter to them. The 

 limit at present is thirty stags, which with heart 

 and liver average about 15 stone 7 lbs., and this 



