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in itself. On those hills, also, Donald MacFinlay, the 

 celebrated deer-stalking bard, lived and died, and was 

 buried wrapped in a deer-hide and laid on the brow of a 

 hill overlooking Loch Treig, where, as he said, " the deer 

 could couch on his bed and the little calves rest by his 

 side." 



The hill of Ben-y-Vricht and the Corrie of Corrie 

 Craegacht have likewise been famed for their deer from 

 the earliest days, and woe is me that I shall never 

 again tramp the rugged sides of either the one or the 

 other. 



In the days gone by when I stalked at Corrour with 

 that good sportsman, the late Mr. Henry Spencer Lucy, 

 the whole ground was not afforested. Corrie Craegacht, 

 Corrie Vallich, Corrie-na-Cloich, with the Green Face, 

 which joined the forests of Ben Alder and Rannoch, 

 was the whole of the cleared ground, and there it was 

 that most of our deer were got. Ben Eibhein (3611 

 feet) and Ben-na-Lapt (3060 feet) have both been put 

 under deer since those days, which has made the present 

 kill nearly double what it was in Lucy's time, when two 



