304 FORESTS OF SCOTLAND. 



exceed eleveu stoue. The number generally killed at 

 Invercauld iu the course of the year is about thirty or forty 

 stags, and twenty hinds. 



THE FOREST OF MARK. 



THE forest of Marr, in the county of Aberdeen, consists of 

 four contiguous glens on the north bank of the Dee, with 

 their various branches and ramifications, viz., Glenquoich, 

 Glenluie, Glendee, and Glenguildy. 



The extent must, in a great measure, be guessed at, it 

 never having been regularly surveyed ; but as far as can be 

 ascertained from the opinion of those who know the ground 

 well, and have had the best opportunity of judging, it is 

 thought the length of the forest may average fifteen miles, 

 and the breadth eight, which would give an area of about 

 60,000 acres. The bearing of the extreme length runs 

 nearly east and west. It is bounded on the north by Glen- 

 avon in Banfishire, and the hills of Rothiernurcus and Glen- 

 feshie in Inverness-shire ; on the west by part of the forest 

 of Atholl and the glen of Baynock ; on the south by the 

 river Dee ; and on the east by part of the forest of Inver- 

 cauld. The whole is in the county of Aberdeen. The 

 principal rivers and streams are the Dee, the Quoich, the 

 Luie, and the Guildy. The Quoich branches at the top and 

 runs into the Bechan and Duglin burns ; the Luie into the 

 Deny and Luibeg ; the Dee into the Garchery and Guir- 

 achan ; and the Guildy into the Davie and the burn of the 

 Cuirn. The only lakes worth mentioning are Loch Eatechan 

 on the east shoulder of Bein-muirdhui and Loch-nastirtar in 

 Glenguisachan. 



The principal mountains beginning on the east are Beina- 

 board, Beinachuirn, Beinavrear, Beinamean, Cairngorum, 

 Bein Muirdhui, Cairnavaim, Breriach, Cairntoul, Beinavrot- 

 tan, Cairn-nealler, and Scarrach ; they are all composed of 

 granite ; and the general character of their surface is dry 

 and rocky for a considerable way down their sides ; but 

 there are many valleys or corries around their bases con- 

 taining good rich hill pasture ; and in the low parts of the 



