THE RED DEER 
the Black Mount Forest, became devoted to deer. As we have said, a 
portrait of Colin MacColl is to be seen holding the dogs in “ A Drive of 
Deer: Glen Orchay,” by Sir Edwin Landseer. The other figure in the 
picture is that of Lord Breadalbane, who thus described a day’s driving 
on the pass between Altchaoran, Larig Dochart and the Eagle Hill: 
“ I have never had a better pass, nor have I ever seen a finer drive 
than we had last week at Coire-na-Keima. The morning had been so 
dark, and the mists were so heavy and lay so low, that I was afraid that 
the men, who had a long way to go round, must come upon other deer 
without seeing them, and so perhaps disturb the corries; but happily 
the mists lifted, and the day cleared up just at the right time, and 
a grander sight I never saw. You know that ground well, and the 
peculiar look of those gigantic slabs of rock which are spread all 
over the side of the hill so as to give the scenery a character of wild 
vastness which I hardly ever saw elsewhere. I was at the pass (near 
the Deer’s Ford) which you were at last year, and had Colin with me, 
with a brace of the best dogs in the kennel. Robertson had calculated 
the time so well that we had not long to wait after we had got to our 
passes; and, as the clouds cleared away and the bright sunshine 
broke through, the sight was glorious. A single hind with her calf 
came on first, and then two or three young stags, and soon after- 
wards the whole herd began to come over the skyline of the Eagle 
Hill. They moved on, but doubtingly at first, with an occasional halt; 
and as they stopped to look about them I could make out some splendid 
heads towering above the rest. At last they reached the big stone (at 
which, you may remember, I was placed last year) where was 
lying. He let a good many small stags go past him, but it was not long 
before I saw the smoke of his rifle, and a magnificent hart fell just 
opposite the stone. Of course, they quickened their pace now, and 
came fair at me, and I could soon hear their tramp as they came up 
out of the hollow; and so did the dogs. Colin had hard work to keep them 
quiet by muffling them with his plaid; but I did not want them pushed, 
as the deer came to the pass so well, and were stringing past me so 
long, that I was able to get excellent chances, had plenty of time to 
load, and soon had three fine harts down.” 
Besides the main lodge on the shores of Loch Tulla there are three 
other stalking lodges in Black Mount. The second in size is Glen Kinglass, 
a stone building capable of accommodating two rifles, and provision for 
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