300 FOEEST8 OF SCOTLAND. 



and Cluny. By survey in 1770, it contained 5,782 Scots 

 acres, exclusive of Beinalder, which forms a part of it, and 

 contains 14,927 acres. It was let for pasture to Lachlan 

 Macpherson in 1773. In 1829 it was purchased from the 

 Gordon trustees, along with the lands of Glentruim, by 

 Major Ewen Macpherson, of the H. E. I. S., and is occupied 

 as a sheep-walk and grouse shooting range. Beinalder is 

 now the property of Ewen Macpherson, Esq. of Cluny, and 

 has recently been let to the Marquis of Abercorn as a deer 

 forest. 



GLENMORE, 



in the parish of Kincardine and county of Inverness, con- 

 taining 10,173 acres, was formerly a great pine forest. It 

 is bounded on the south by the forests of Glenavon and 

 Marr. It is used now for pasturage. Cairngorm forms part 

 of this forest. 



GLENAVON, 



in the parish of Kirkmichael, county of Banff, contains 

 22,086 Scots acres. Since 1773 it has been occupied as a 

 grazing, but it is said that the Duke of Richmond con- 

 templates restoring it to a deer forest. It adjoins the forest 

 of Marr. 



GLENBUILY, 



adjoining Glenavon, 3,396 acres. 



GLENFIDDICH, 



parish of Mortlach, county of Banff, 5,522 acres, is possessed 

 by the Duke of Richmond as a deer forest, and has always 

 been retained as such by the Gordon family. 



Of all these ancient forests, the last and Gaick are the only 

 ones now strictly preserved for deer ; the others are pastured 

 by black cattle, or sheep, and are therefore only partially 

 stocked with the nobler animals. 



THE FOREST OF INVERCAULD. 



THE Invercauld forest is situated in the parish of Braemar,. 

 and county of Aberdeen. Lord Byron's famed Loch-na- 



