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stormy season it rushes with great turbulence into the 

 Earn, and has been known to bring down sheep and ex- 

 hausted 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 sanc- 

 tuary, 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 

 as 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 colly 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. 



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