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Athol's, who have killed a great many fine stags. 

 In Glenfiddoch, on the 28th October, Lord Arthur 

 Lennox killed a stag of seven points. On Wednesday 

 the Prince Edward of Saxe- Weimar killed one of nine 

 points ; and on Friday Lord March knocked down a 

 noble animal of eleven points. At Balmoral the Prince 

 Consort has not killed so many deer as he did up to this 

 time last season ; he is shooting very indifferently, and 

 it is said the prince has lost his nerve when deer-stalk- 

 ing." " Lord Lovat has an extensive deer forest in 

 Eosshire ; he is an expert rifle shot, and active and 

 zealous in the preservation of deer, which will tend to 

 give perpetuity of deer-stalking, a most exciting and 

 manly amusement." Mr. Scrope mentions an extraor- 

 dinary shot made by the Hon. Edward Lascelles, 

 who killed a stag on the trot at three hundred and 

 twelve yards' distance near Loch Maree, and what makes 

 it very singular it was the first he had made at deer. 

 " The Duke of Grordon possesses a vast tract of deer 

 forest, extending more than seventy miles, but with the 

 exception of Grlenfiddoch and Gaick, where the deer 

 are preserved, the remainder is principally devoted to 

 pastm-age." The forest of Corrichbah, which belongs to 

 the Mai-quis of Breadalbane, is in Argyleshire. It had 

 undergone a change like many of the other forests of 

 the Highlands, and most parts of it were converted into 

 sheep-walks. About forty years ago the noble marquis 

 had thirty-fi\-e thousand acres entirely given up as a 

 deer forest, and I have been told that he succeeded well 

 in stocking this forest withthe capercailzie or cock of the 

 wood, and I much regret the wild boar has not become 

 a denizen of this wild tract of countrv ; but I conclude 



