ROSS-SHIRE. 3°3 



On either side of the glen the hills are covered at 

 their bases with woods of birch and fir ; as the 

 wood ceases, they rise in more or less steep or 

 undulating slopes, until in some parts they reach 

 an altitude of 3,000 feet. Amongst these tall hills 

 may be mentioned those of Knockdamph, the " hill 

 of the stag"; Benvrick, the "speckled mountain," 

 and Beneiltach, the "hill of the hinds." On the 

 south these lands are skirted by the deer ground 

 of Leckmelm, while Corriemulzie joins it on the 

 east. Three rifles can go out daily, to whom 

 William Sutherland, the head forester, strongly 

 recommends cloth of green and yellow mixtures as 

 best suited to this ground, where the bag is 

 made entirely by stalking. In 1895 the tenant, 

 Mr. Molyneux Clarke, killed fifty-three stags, while 

 the average weight of beasts for the years 1893, 

 1894, and 1895 worked out at 14 stone 12 lbs., 

 quite clean, which is a matter to be proud of. A 

 previous tenant of this forest, Captain T. S. Starkey, 

 late of the 9th Lancers — "Tom" Starkey of his 



