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account of what has taken place on the moor which, 

 up to now, has beaten all the records in Scotland. I 

 allude to the estate of the Mackintosh at Moy Hall, 

 Inverness. This gentleman has been kind enough to 

 send me a very exact record of the progress of his 

 moor from the days when no driving was done until 

 the present time, when he finds himself able to rival 

 the records of most of the English moors with very few 

 exceptions. My readers will, no doubt, find it difficult 

 to believe that I have not founded what I have written 

 above upon the account which the Mackintosh has 

 been good enough to send me. I can only, therefore, 

 give them my word that I have not the pleasure of 

 knowing that gentleman, that I have never set foot 

 upon the Moy Hall moors, and that all the foregoing 

 pages, in which I have endeavoured to show how the re- 

 sults of Scotch moorland could be improved by driving, 

 were written before receiving this admirable paper. I 

 may, perhaps, be allowed to say how gratified I feel 

 to find that the Mackintosh's narrative of experience 

 so closely corroborates what I have urged myself. 

 The matter which he has sent me, and for which I 

 cannot sufficiently express my gratitude, is so excellent 

 and practical that I think I cannot do better than 

 print it in 



