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parting with the head on account of its marked 

 peculiarities. Suspicion at once fell on Poacher 

 Finlay, and Mr. Hay Mackenzie used all sorts of 

 persuasion to recover the head of the missing 

 stag, until at length he was reduced to offering 

 the thief five pounds with a free pardon — a liberal 

 bid, which procured him the restoration of the lost 

 trophy. Mr. Mackenzie eventually gave this head 

 to the Lord Londonderry of that period, which to 

 this day is a treasured ornament of the walls of 

 Mount Stuart in County Down ; that this is a 

 reputation well earned may readily be supposed when 

 it can be stated it had nineteen fine points, a span of 

 40 inches, a right horn of 32 inches in length, with a 

 circumference of 7 inches just above the coronet, 

 the left horn being but a trifle smaller, and a drawing 

 of it still hangs in the dining-room of Rhidorrach. 



FOREST OF SCATWELL BY MUIR OF ORD. 



This ground, cleared for upwards of the last 

 twenty years, belongs to Sir W. J. Bell, and extends 



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