288 THE DEER FORESTS OF SCOTLAND. 



Flowerdale joins it on the west, and Torridon and 

 Coulin on the south and south-west ; it is very 

 rocky, steep ground, off which in 1895 thirty-five 

 stags were killed. 



FOREST OF KINLOCH-LUICHART BY DINGWALL. 



This forest, the property of Lady Ashburton, 

 my map of the deer forests puts at just over 20,000 

 acres, but from other good sources it is estimated 

 at from 42,000 to 45,000 acres, including some 10,000 

 acres of grouse ground. It marches with Fannich on 

 the west, with Braemore and Strathvaich on north and 

 north-east, with sheep ground on the east, and Achanah 

 on the south. The house, barely a mile from the 

 station, is finely placed, looking over Loch Luichart 

 and on to some of the highest hills of the forest, 

 which rise to 3,000 feet. It is a long narrow estate, 

 with a flat boggy strath running through it, a give and 

 take ground, off which the deer are easily shifted and 

 equally as easily put on to from the adjacent forests, 

 a matter which renders the stalking more exciting 



