274 THE DEER FORESTS OF SCOTLAND. 



FOREST OF FANNICH BY LOCHLUICHART. 



This is also one of Mr. H. Mackenzie's forests, 

 extending over an area of between seventeen and 

 eighteen thousand acres, on which the highest ground 

 rises to 3,600 feet. Lord Ormathwaite, and then the 

 late Sir Robert Harvey, both held this forest for several 

 years, and had good sport in it ; recent clearances, 

 however, having offered the deer of these parts finer, 

 fresher grazing, Fannich has suffered somewhat 

 by the formation of the new forests. From the 

 top of this high hill, which is the backbone of 

 Fannich and divides Corrie Bheag from Corrie Rioch, 

 the sea can often be seen on either side, and here, 

 at an elevation of about 3,000 feet, is a stone 

 shelter, put up by the late Sir Robert Bateson 

 Harvey. The ground carries two rifles, and is most 

 difficult to stalk on, as, owing to the punch-bowl shape 

 of many of the corries, the wind always blows in 

 eddies. In this season of 1895 ** was rented by 

 Mr. Taylor, in conjunction with the adjacent forest 



