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there are still the remains of Kindroghit Castle on the 

 Invercauld property, used by Malcolm Canmore as a 

 hunting seat, of which mention is made in the notes to Sir 

 Walter Scott's "Marmion." It does not exceed twenty 

 years since the sheep and other animals were finally 

 cleared off the hills to the west, where it joins the Marr 

 Lodge forest. About 4200 acres are in wood, the greater 

 part of which, on the east side, called the Ballochbui, 

 consists of indigenous pine, many centuries old, and of 

 great size. There are several hundred hinds which never 

 leave these woods or their vicinity ; but it is difficult to 

 estimate the number of deer belonging to Invercauld, as it 

 is constantly fluctuating with a change of wind. In 

 summer the prevailing west wind frequently takes the 

 greater part of the stags to the Marr Lodge forest ; but 

 when the wind returns to the east, or in bad weather, hun- 

 dreds of stags and hinds immediately come back; and 

 in winter and spring the woods are always full of them. 

 The roc deer at all times abound in these woods. There 

 are no lochs worthy of note in the forest, but there 

 are several in the adjoining grouse ground belonging 

 to Invercauld, the greater part of which is let in dif- 

 ferent shooting quarters, and all under sheep : when the 

 latter are removed from the hills to winter pastures, the 

 deer, particularly the stags, frequent great part of it until 

 the sheep return in summer. It extends to 112,760 acres, 



or destroying of wood ; and to tak the same in for thame and intromit 

 thairwith to his awin use : and to present thair personis to the justice, 

 shiref, or any other ordinar juge to be punisheit conforme to the lawis 

 of this realme and generallie, &c. : term and stabill to hold, &c. at 

 Falkland, the 11 day of Jully, the year of God l m V Ixxxiv. yeiris." 



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