426 THE WHITE HIND. 



LOCH ETIVE AND DALNESS. 



MR. CAMPBELL of Monzie, whose property is situated at 

 the head of Loch Etive, is forming a forest there, and has 

 joined to his own lands (by lease) the old forest of Dalness, 

 of which he is the hereditary keeper, but from which the 

 deer have, of late years, been almost entirely expelled. 

 By this arrangement his forest will march with Lord 

 Brcadalbane's for an extent of about six miles. Mention 

 has already been made of a white hind referred to in the 

 old family manuscript at Taymouth, called the Black 

 Book, which existed in and near the forest of Corrichibah 

 in the year 1622, and previously. This was probably the 

 same animal which tradition relates to have been seen 

 about the same time in the vicinity of Loch Etive, as was 

 mentioned in a preceding chapter in connection with a 

 story of a deed of violence perpetrated among the poachers 

 of the district. 



I now conclude the catalogue and description of the 

 forests and principal deer-haunts in the north. There 

 may be others with which I am unacquainted ; my omission 

 to mention such (if, indeed, such do exist) will not, I 

 trust, be imputed to my sense of their implied want of 

 consequence, but rather to the real cause, namely, that of 

 "pure ignorance on my part." 



