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GAICK, 



in the parish of Kingussie and county of Inverness, is 

 bounded on the south and west by the forest of Atholl, on 

 the east by the forest of Felaar, and the estate of Invereshie, 

 and on the north by the lands of Invertruim, Ruthven, 

 Noid, Phoness, and Glentruim. It contains three lakes 

 stocked with char and large trout, and salmon are occa- 

 sionally found in them, ascending by the water of Iromie 

 from the Spey. By survey in 1770, it contained 10,777 

 acres. It was let in 1782 as a sheep-walk to Robert 

 Stewart of Garth for nineteen years. In 1804 it was let 

 to Col. Gordon of Invertruim, who occupied it as a grazing 

 till 1814, when the Marquis of Huntley got it from his 

 father as a deer forest. In 1830 it was purchased by Mr. 

 Macpherson Grant, of Ballindalloch, from the Gordon 

 trustees, and it is now left to Sir Joseph Radcliife, Bart., 

 who strictly preserves it as a deer forest, and has an excel- 

 lent shooting lodge near the centre of the range. 



DRUMAUCHTAR, 



in the parish of Kingussie and county of Inverness, is 

 bounded on the south by the west forest of Atholl, on the 

 west by the Duke of AtholPs and Sir Neill Menzies's pro- 

 perties, and on the north and east by the lands of Glen- 

 truim and Cluny. By survey in 1770, it contained 5782 

 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 Glen- 

 truim, by Major Ewen Macpherson, of the H. E. I. S. and 



