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For grouse, black game, and tarmigan, 

 this place, in my opinion, has not its equal. 

 The mountain hare is also peculiar to the 

 forests of this country, and considerably lar- 

 ger than the wold hares, and weighs from 

 eleven to fourteen pounds ; in the beginning 

 of October they cast their summer's coat of 

 the common colour, and become perfectly 

 white by Christmas, except the black mark 

 at the back of the scut. They are generally 

 shot, or killed with greyhounds, but by the 

 last method chiefly, when the snow is deep, 

 as there are many holes and crevices among 

 the rocks and mountains where they rua in 

 and out like rabbits. 



All round Blair-castle, and his grace's seat 

 at Dunkeld on the Tay, there is excellent sal- 

 mon and trout fishing, and in as delightful 

 a country as any part of the kingdom. A 

 most elegant bridge is now erecting by his 

 grace across the river Tay, in the centre of 

 the town of Dunkeld, on the high road from 

 Edinburgh to Towerness. At the inns arc 



