GLEN DOCHART. 



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rocks on the north-west side of the loch, where Mr. Symington 

 Grieve discovered the large colonies of Daubenton's Bat, and also 

 one of the old Castle, which has been recently exploited by Mrs. 

 Place of Glendochart House.^ 



I do not use space here for any description of Glen Dochart, as 

 it is too well known to require that; nor do I enlarge upon the 

 scenery of Loch Earn and the line of new railway by its side, because 

 that will soon be the common property of every tourist — at least to 

 admire from the railway-carriage windows. 



Nor does it seem necessary or desirable to occupy space with a 

 description of Loch Tay around Killin, where I had the pleasure 

 of again meeting Mr. Duncan Dewar, the oldest living gamekeeper 

 in the service of the Duke, who only retired from his charge at 

 Eemony last May (1904), and who now still pursues his favourite 

 hobby — stuffing birds and other wild things — and who lives close to 

 Killin. Mr. Dewar kindly consented to having his likeness taken 

 by Mr. Norrie, which I was well pleased to obtain. Notes of the 

 birds which I saw in his second collection — he having parted with 

 his first and principal collection to the County Museum in Perth — 

 will be found alluded to under several species.^ 



^ By the kindness of Mrs. Place, whom I had the pleasure of meeting a few days 

 later at Fortingall, I have received an interesting MS. account, written by herself, 

 of the discoveries made by her party there during the last ten or twelve years, 

 illustrated by drawings by her son of the articles found — relics which are now 

 safely housed and in her possession. These discoveries include the unearthing of 

 a " bottle -dungeon " and a cell, a flagstone with a coat-of-arms, old iron-barred 

 sash of a window, and quite a number of other remains. The paper, it is intended, 

 will appear in the Proc. of the Antiquaries of Scotland. 



Mr. Dewar is well known to Perthshire naturalists. He served for two years 

 at Taymouth, 1854-6 ; sixteen years at Mornish, 1856-72 ; and thirty-two years 

 at Remony, 1872-1904 — or in all, a service on the Breadalbane estates of some 

 fifty years. During that period he accounted for about 4200 head of "Vermin," 

 exclusive of Crows and Jackdaws, which would, he tells me, "probably amount 

 to about 5000, as I was annually destroying about 800 eggs." He has served 

 all his life on the estates, and has never worked for any other master. 



