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the grazing is extra good, some unusually heavy ones 

 are got each year ; they are weighed clean after 

 being left on the hill all night, and in 1893 there was 

 one of 23 stone, another of 22 stone 8 lbs., while 

 the average weight of the thirty-four stags put into the 

 larder in that year was 15 stone 8 lbs. Owing to 

 the nearly incessant rains of 1894, the condition of 

 the deer of that season was inferior, the heaviest 

 stag scaling 18 stone 10 lbs., with the average a 

 good bit below that of 1893. The ground will carry 

 two rifles every day, all deer being killed by stalking. 

 On the "off days" salmon and sea trout are a 

 strong point at Coulin, as they come up out of 

 Lochmaree into Lochs Clair and Coulin in great 

 numbers. 



FOREST OF DEANICII BY ARUGAY. 



This is one of Sir Charles Ross's forests, which, 

 marching with Inchbae, Inverlael, and Strathvaich, is 

 let together with Alladale on a lease to Sir Henry 

 Bruce Meux. There are about 20,000 acres of fine 



