270 THE DEER FORESTS OF SCOTLAND. 



stalking ground, which yield, on an average, forty 

 stags each season, having a mean weight of 1 5 stone 

 7 lbs., weighed clean. 



FOREST OF DIBIEDALE BY ARDGAY. 



This ground, with an area of 11,000 acres, cleared 

 in 1849, is the property of Sir J. Kenneth Matheson, 

 and is at present let to Sir Greville Smythe. It con- 

 sists of two main glens running parallel east and west ; 

 the one covered for the greater part with grass, and 

 known as Glen Dibiedale, the other with heather and 

 patches of birch wood, and called Corrievaligan, the 

 west end of which is of a rocky nature, interspersed 

 with mosses. 



On the south it marches with Kildermorie, on the 

 west with Inchbae, on the north-west with Alladale, 

 and on the east comes the grouse moor that goes 

 with Dibiedale. There is a well-placed sanctuary of 

 2,000 acres. The highest hills are Cairn Coinneag 

 (2,749 ft.), "the conical hill," a coinneag being 

 a conical-shaped wooden cup used in old days for 



