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Mr. Emerson Bainbridge, from Lord Wimborne, who 

 became the owner in 187 1. It covers a large extent 

 of high, rough ground, but I have not been able to 

 procure any reliable information. " The Field," which 

 is rarely incorrect, states that twenty-eight stags were 

 killed in this season of 1895, but from other equally 

 trustworthy sources I hear that the ground was very 

 lightly shot, and that this forest, when harder worked, 

 is capable of making a far better return from the 

 25,000 acres over which it extends. Corrie Vanie is 

 a large and celebrated corrie on this ground, and it 

 was from here that the stags were driven when, on 

 October 5th, 1870, Mr. Tenant, the then occupant, 

 gave a deer drive to the Prince of Wales, which 

 resulted in the death of nineteen good beasts. 



FOREST OF ALLADALE, ARDGAY. 



This fine ground of some 40,000 acres is the 

 property of Sir Charles Ross of Balnagowan, and 

 is let to Sir H. B. Meux, who joins it on to Deanich. 

 On the east it marches with the forests of Amat' and 



