Grouse disease : its cause and remedies / D.G.F. MacDonald.

  • Macdonald, Duncan George Forbes, 1823?-1884.
Date:
1883
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Credit: Grouse disease : its cause and remedies / D.G.F. MacDonald. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    mous rents now given, are evidence of the rapid growth of the world’s wealth, and that the interest taken in the feathered denizens of the hills is not flagging. There are many examples of the marvellous increase of rents within the last forty or fifty years, as the following statement condensed from the “ Quarterly Review ” shows. In the counties of Perth, Inverness, and Ross, Highland properties have doubled in value within the last forty-five years. The shootings of Glen Urquhart were in 1836 let for one hundred pounds; they now produce a rental of about two thousand pounds. The Glen Morison moors were rented for one hundred pounds in 1835; they now bring in nearly three thousand pounds a year. The shootings attached to the Erchless Castle, as well as those of Fasnakyle, may be taken as fair examples of the rise of shooting-rents. These have increased at least twenty times in value in the course of as many years. One of the first shootings let was Monalia or Coignafearn, on which moors the river Findorn has its source. They are the property of the Mackintosh, and were first let to a Mr. Windsor at a rent of thirty pounds, with five pounds given back as a luckpenny. Some twenty years ago these shootings were let at rents varying from three hundred pounds to five hundred pounds. The Aberarder moors were on lease forty years ago at seventy pounds; the rent has been for years back, on an average, four hundred pounds. Stratherrick, for years let at an exceedingly