WEIGHT OP BRAEMAR DEER. 403 



foxhound, and also with the bloodhound: but still the 

 foresters prefer the terriers, which are of a very sagacious 

 nature, and were brought originally from Ross-shire.* 



The Braemar deer are allowed to be quite different 

 from those of the Atholl forest ; they stand higher, and 

 are in general of a greater weight. The stags average 

 from fourteen to sixteen stone when gralloched, but occa- 

 sionally far exceed that, and have weighed (with the 

 inside) as much as twenty-five stone of fourteen pounds 

 to the stone; The hinds seldom exceed eleven stone, 

 The number generally killed at Invercauld in the course 

 of the year is about thirty or forty stags, and twenty 

 hinds. 



* Probably because they made less disturbance in the forest, which, 

 although of a princely extent in point of length, is rather narrow for 

 urging the chase in a cross wind. 



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