THE RED DEER. 
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(Jeer ; but the chase was generally un- 
and the terrified creature escaped to 
'Native brakes, once more to hide in a wil- 
of fern. Some hundreds of deer were 
driven into the enclosed park, and 
extraordinary hunting terminated.” 
Scotland red deer are yet found in Mar 
'^test and Glenartney ; and they are still in 
j^^^iderable number in the western parts of 
. and Sutherland ; “ but,” says the writer 
tat their fleetness and the 
of the ground on which they are found, 
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and hounds are of no use in the direct 
of them, as the steed would be required 
®tp precipices of fifty feet, instead of gates 
^ bars ; and the dogs would be constantly 
^j^'^bling into gulleys and ravines, which are 
j ®tre(j jjggj. bound.” “ The 
s 
^est forest set apart for red deer in Scot- 
’ is the forest of Athol, where a hundred 
°^sand English acres are given up to them ; 
