TENANTS OF HIGHLAND FORESTS. S67 



Higliland landlords the boon which a good tenant 

 confers on tlieir domains, when for years he pays a 

 high rent and employs a multitude of people, simply 

 exercising just or tenant rights, and keeping up the 

 place by living in it, without injuring anything be- 

 lonsfino- to his landlord, while at the same time he 

 confers much benefit on the local or labouring poor. 



I look upon the mountains and lakes of Lochiel as 

 splendid, yet the deer forest, being, as I said before, 

 essentially a hind forest, is not one of the first class 

 for the exercise of the rifle ; but it might be made 

 better if the whole of the mountain, instead of half 

 of it, was assigned to the deer, and better care taken 

 in burning the heath and falling of timber. It is, 

 however, a fine wild scene in which to sojourn, with 

 sport enough to amuse the able and hardy, but not 

 easily accessible to the fine gentleman or man who 

 wishes to ignite a number of caps without much 

 trouble. Adieu, then, to the territory of the Lochiel. 



The printed Memoirs of Sir Ewen Cameron, in the 

 library at Achnacarry, under permission, of course, 

 would afi'ord matter for longer notice than this ; and 

 I need but raise my eyes from the library to Clune's 

 Hill and the cave wherein Prince Charlie was so long 

 concealed, or, further on, to the mountain on whose 

 rugged sides and summit I have shot ptarmigan, 

 where, in a small niche, the remains of a mattrass were 

 found, supposed to have afi'orded rest to a claimant 

 king, to ink my pen and sweeten invention with a 

 dash of truth. Sufiicient, however, for the present; 

 that Englisli Thane of letters, Longman, in my ear 

 seems to cry his " Hold, enough," and my Remini- 

 scences hke a watch must be wound up and submitted 

 to the public perusal. 



