234 THE DEER FORESTS OF SCOTLAND. 



has spent very large sums on repairs, improvements, 

 plantings, buildings, and river embankments. 



FORESTS OF BEN DAMPH AND NEW KELSO, TORRIDON. 



Purchased some years ago by the Earl of Love- 

 lace from Mr. Duncan Darroch, these properties now 

 belong to Captain the Hon. Lionel Fortescue King. 

 The two forests make up 18,000 acres — Ben Damph 

 being 12,500 acres and New Kelso 5,500 acres — 

 of high rocky ground, with the hills standing out 

 singly, their sides much cut up by watercourses, 

 while on the very high ground there is but little 

 feeding. The valleys and burn sides afford excellent 

 grazing. The forests which to-day are known as 

 Ben Damph and Torridon were cleared by Mr. 

 Duncan Darroch in 1872, and up till 1885 that 

 gentleman stalked the whole ground himself. In 

 that year the Ben Damph portion was sold to the 

 late Earl of Lovelace, who at once set to work to 

 build a fine house on it, making roads, pony tracks, 

 boat-houses, plantations, fences, otherwise spending 



