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drawing water; " Beinn Tarsuinn" (2,330 ft.) lies 

 across and at right angles to the two glens already 

 mentioned, and hence the name, which is Gaelic for 

 " across." The first tenant of this forest was the 

 well-known Horatio Ross, who held it from 1849 to 

 1865; then from 1866 to 1875 the owner, Sir 

 Alexander Matheson, kept it in his own hands, 

 when, in 1875, Sir Robert Loder took a lease of the 

 forest, and his average kill for ten years was thirty- 

 nine stags, the greatest number got in any one year 

 being fifty. In 1887 the forest was taken by the 

 present tenant, that good sportsman, Sir Greville 

 Smythe, who has made a large collection of heads on 

 it, the finest of which is a grand thirteen-pointer, 

 followed, however, by many royals. 



FOREST OF DRUMRUNIE, OR COULMORE, BY ULLAPOOL. 



One of the properties of the Countess of Cromartie, 

 afforested in 1876, and let to Mr. Sydney Piatt of 

 Bryn-y-Neuadd, Llanfairfechan. It has an area of 

 35,000 acres of very precipitous, steep, rocky ground, 



