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which a drawing is annexed, is beautifully placed 

 at the west end of the loch of that name, with a grand 

 look-out on to the stony slopes of the summit of Ben 

 Arkle, which rises to 2,500 feet. The house was 

 enlarged and nearly rebuilt in 1866, when the present 

 Duke of Westminster, then Lord Grosvenor, took over 

 the whole of the Reay Forest from the late Lord 

 Dudley, which ancient hunting ground of the Lords 

 of Reay then consisted of the properties at present 

 forming Ben Hee, Gobernuisgach, Lochmore, and 

 Stack, which have long ceased to exist as a whole, and 

 no single one of them can now lay claim to the title of 

 "the Reay" forest. From the time it came into the 

 Duke of Westminster's hands he has spared no 

 pains to improve the deer, and in this he has been 

 highly successful, for when he took it, in 1866, the 

 whole ground yielded 130 stags, averaging 15 stone 

 7 lbs. quite clean, a very fine mean weight, on 

 which it might have been thought impossible to 

 improve, but nevertheless, in 1894, that good year, 

 the same ground yielded 188 stags, making the 



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