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Title: Twenty-Six Years Reminiscences of Scotch Grouse Moors

Author: William Alexander Adams

Release Date: May 28, 2014 [eBook #45796]

Language: English

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The Strath of Dalnawillan,
From the Mound Pool.
AFTER A PICTURE BY DOUGLAS ADAMS.

TWENTY-SIX YEARS
Reminiscences
OF
Scotch Grouse Moors.

By W. A. ADAMS.

The Illustrations drawn by C. Whymper.

LONDON:
HORACE COX,
"THE FIELD" OFFICE. 346 STRAND. W.C.
1889.

LONDON:
PRINTED BY HORACE COX, 346, STRAND, W.C.

CONTENTS.

"The first gleam of light on Pickering Moor."

TWENTY-SIX YEARS REMINISCENCES

OF

SCOTCH GROUSE MOORS.

My grouse shooting days are now past. Increasing years and rheumatic muscles remind me that I have had my time, and a very good time too, so now let younger men take my place and profit by my experience, if it should so please them.

Let us look back on grouse shooting twenty-six years ago. Scotland, so far as regards the sporting of the far north, was then almost a terra incognita.

Railways ended at Inverness, and to get there needed a journey to Aberdeen, and from there by the slowest of slow railways, but quick enough—life was not run at so fast a pace as now.

The more remote districts of the north and west of Scotland were as unknown as the