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other people equally credible, Mr. Bankes allowed 

 himself to be persuaded to take steps for the destruc- 

 tion of the monster. An attempt was forthwith 

 made to draw off the water from Loch-na-beiste, 

 which resulted in reducing the depth to six feet, 

 except in one part where there was a hole of some 

 fifteen feet deep, and this was therefore the only 

 place in the loch which held sufficient water to hide 

 " the beast." Into this fourteen barrels of raw lime 

 were poured at once, a proceeding which caused 

 the death of most of the trout in the loch, while 

 the "great beast" remained undiscovered, and from 

 that time forward no further attempts have been 

 made to molest him. 



FOREST OF MONAR BY BEAULY. 



This ground belongs to Mr. Stirling of Fairburn, 

 who keeps it in his own hands. It has an area 

 of some 20,000 acres, entirely surrounded by other 

 forests ; Achnashellach lies on the north ; on the 

 west and south are Attadale and Glencannich, and 



