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with plenty of steep-sided corries, the lower parts 

 of which are covered with patches of very long old 

 heather and pasture. On the west it marches with 

 Shieldaig, and near this boundary its larch wood of 

 Chosag affords good wintering, Torridon comes in on 

 the south, Kinlochewe on the east, and then the 

 estate, crossing Loch Maree, runs up to Letterewe and 

 Ardlair on the north and north-east. 



The highest hills are Bein-an-Eoin, "bird or 

 ptarmigan hill " (2,801 ft.), Bus-bhein (2,869 ft-) an d 

 Ben Dearg, and along the watershed of these two 

 last-named hills the forest march runs for some miles. 

 The ground carries one rifle until the last fortnight of 

 the season, while up to that date it is more of a hind 

 than a stag forest. The total kill for the last twelve 

 years has been exactly 203 stags, or, in round numbers, 

 eighteen per annum, the heaviest of which has 

 scaled 18 stone, while the average weight works out 

 at but 12 stone clean. This low weight, however, 

 must be put down to two causes : first, everything 

 with horns that has been shot has been weighed 



