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and is 108 miles in circumference. The names of the prin- 

 cipal lochs are Lochbalader, above a mile in length, Loch 

 Kenlader, Loch-nau-eau, famous for its trouts (which are 

 of a red colour resembling those of Loch Leven), Loch 

 Brotichan, and part of Loch Muich, which is the largest, 

 being above two miles long. 



The old method of stalking the deer against the wind is 

 the one generally practised in this district : it is not always 

 easily done, owing to the numerous eddies which are met 

 with among the hills ; and thus it allows great scope for the 

 knowing forester in displaying his tact, and in bringing the 

 sportsman within shot of his object. In the Ballochbui, 

 the deer are frequently, more especially in cold or windy 

 weather, to be seen within shot of the drives; and both 

 stags and hinds have been often killed by Mr. Farquharson 

 from a carriage or a pony. The deer are seldom driven, 

 never hunted with dogs, unless to bring down a wounded 

 animal. The foresters have small terriers properly trained 

 to keep by them when stalking, and these will track a 

 wounded deer to a great distance without giving tongue, 

 and have been known to find one after two nights and a 

 day had elapsed. They answer every purpose, as they bring 

 the sportsman within a second shot without being perceived, 

 whilst greyhounds, when the object is out of view, cannot 

 follow the scent properly; so that where the ground is stony, 

 or in the woods, they are almost always unsuccessful. Such 

 greyhounds as are in use are descendants of the Glengarry 

 breed, and have been lately crossed with the common fox- 

 hound, and also with the bloodhood ; but still the foresters 

 prefer the terriers, which are of a very sagacious nature, 

 and were brought originally from Ross-shire.* 



The Braemar deer are allowed to be quite different from 

 those of the Atholl forest ; they stand higher, and are in 

 general of a greater weight. The stags average from four- 

 teen to sixteen stone gralloched, but occasionally far exceed 

 that, and have weighed (with the inside) as much as twenty- 

 five stone of fourteen pounds to the stone. The hinds seldom 



* Probably because they made less disturbance in the forest, which, 

 although of a princely extent in point of length, is rather narrow for urging 

 the chase in a cross wind. 



