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great turbulence into the Earn, and has been known to 

 bring down sheep and exhausted deer along with its wreck. 



There are no lakes in this forest. The chief hills are as 

 follow : Sroin-na-Cabar, Coir-na-Maville, Ban-dhu-Boan- 

 na-Scarnaich, Sroin-na-Broileag, Stuic-na-Cabuic, Beinn- 

 Dearg, and Sroin-na-Hellurie. There is a sanctuary, or 

 deer-preserve, in the centre of the forest, which declines 

 on the south, but is steep on the west, north, and east. 



The grounds are stocked with about one hundred black 

 cattle in the winter, and one hundred and fifty during the 

 summer. The sheep were removed about seven years ago, 

 as they were found to feed upon the best deer pasture, and 

 that the shepherds disturbed the stags with their dogs. 

 There are perhaps from seven hundred to one thousand 

 deer in the forest. About fifty yeld hinds and forty stags 

 are killed annually, which appears to me to be a liberal 

 proportion. As the deer are fed in the winter with corn 

 and hay, they attain to a considerable size. What are called 

 good deer weigh, when gralloched, from thirteen to fifteen 

 stone, and some reach even to seventeen and eighteen stone. 

 In this forest they use both greyhounds and colley dogs for 

 bringing wounded deer to bay ; but they seem to prefer 

 the latter. 



" The nature of the ground (says Donald Cameron, the 

 old forester) is good and healthy, interspersed with heath 

 and rashes, and natural grass, and is beautiful to the eye of 

 the traveller." Donald has been in the forest for thirty-five 

 years, and has had the chief management of it nearly the 

 whole of that period. 



THE FOREST OF JURA. 



So common were red deer throughout Scotland, that there 

 are few, even of the Hebrides, in which their remains are 

 not to be found ; and in many of these islands, to this day, 

 they still exist in considerable numbers. Of the latter are 

 Jura, Mull, Skye, and the long island which includes Lewis 

 Harris, North and South Uist, and Benbecula. 

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