322 THE DEER FORESTS OF SCOTLAND. 



FOREST OF KINLOCH BY TONGUE. 



This is another of the Duke of Sutherland's 

 properties, first afforested in 1890, and let then to 

 Mr. W. E. Lawson, who still holds it. It consists 

 of nearly 40,000 acres, the valleys of which con- 

 tain birch and alder. The tops of the high lands 

 are rocky and sterile, and of these Ben Hope is 

 the highest (3,040 feet) ; there are, however, many 

 fine grassy corries. It marches with Gobernuisgach 

 on the south, while the boundaries in other quarters 

 are sheep grounds. It carries two rifles, and since 

 it was cleared in the five seasons ending 1894 it 

 has averaged twenty-nine stags, which, taking one 

 with the other, work out at 14 stone 5 lbs. The 

 tenant was last season witness of a cunning trick 

 on the part of a big stag which he was stalking on 

 a mossy flat, dotted with many pools of black peat 

 water. The stag Mr. Lawson was after had several 

 hinds with him, which he was zealously guarding. 

 On his way up to his quarry he was compelled to put 



