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being highest midway between the streams, it has an eastern as 
well as a western aspect ; its elevation above the sea varies from 
430 to 565 feet. 
Achintoul, or farm No. II., has a western aspect, and rises 
from 413 to 550 feet above the sea-level. 
Claggan, No. III., faces the south, and rises from 360 to 650 
feet. 
Kinbrace, No. IV., has a western and a southern aspect, with 
an elevation of 430 to 650 feet. 
Baddanloch, No. V., has the same aspect ; its four lower 
fields rise from 425 to 550, and its four upper fields from 550 to 
700 feet above the sea-level. The object in separating the farms, 
instead of making them contiguous like the Shinness farms, is 
that a sufficient outrun may be attached to each, probably in 
the proportion of 10 acres of enclosed outrun to each acre of 
reclaimed land. The extent of the outrun for farms, Nos. I. 
and II., is indicated on the map. 
The altitude of the land varies considerably, and there can 
be little doubt that the low-lying fields will be best adapted for 
cultivation ; it must be observed, however, that cultivation by 
spade-husbandry had previously been carried on in the district 
above the level of the highest land now to be reclaimed ; and 
the marks of some of this cultivation can still be observed 
upon the hill-sides. About seventy years ago the crofters were 
removed, and their lands thrown into the one large sheep-farm 
of Kinbrace, comprising 30,000 acres, and reckoned to carry 
6000 sheep. For many years it was in the occupation of 
Mr. William Houstoun, whose flocks were noted as being among 
the best in the county, a fine and healthy stock, doing credit to 
their feeding-ground. Two years ago Mr. Houstoun relin- 
quished the farm, and his Grace retains it, with the intention of 
dividing it into smaller farms, to be worked in connection with 
arable land. 
A full and accurate account is kept of all the expenses of these 
reclamations ; and, to prevent any confusion of accounts, a fixed 
charge is made for the use of the engines, although they belong 
to the Duke. Mr. Greig agrees to pay 1/. per diem for each set of 
tackle as soon as it is delivered at the Kinbrace station, and the 
charge is to run on all the year round, whether the engines are 
at work or not, although they are kept idle all through the long 
winter. The superintendent of each set of tackle is required to 
give on a printed form a daily report of the length and breadth of 
the work done, the number and the names of the men employed, 
the time spent in actual work, in removing the tackle from one 
field to another, and the time lost from breakage or other 
causes. Three double-engine sets of tackle, two of fourteen- 
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