. The Earls of Cromartie; their kindred, country, and correspondence. [With plates, including portraits and facsimiles, and genealogical tables.] . summer and autumn months with visitors, for its spa and its salubrity. Through his marriage with Margaret Macleod, heiress of the Lewis, SirEorie obtained the barony of Coigeach in Lochbroom, and he was thereafterknown under the territorial designation of Coigeach. In ancient times Coigeach was famous as a deer forest. In the mostancient map of Great Britain, which was made before 1300, there is shown,in the north-west of Scotland, a district named
. The Earls of Cromartie; their kindred, country, and correspondence. [With plates, including portraits and facsimiles, and genealogical tables.] . summer and autumn months with visitors, for its spa and its salubrity. Through his marriage with Margaret Macleod, heiress of the Lewis, SirEorie obtained the barony of Coigeach in Lochbroom, and he was thereafterknown under the territorial designation of Coigeach. In ancient times Coigeach was famous as a deer forest. In the mostancient map of Great Britain, which was made before 1300, there is shown,in the north-west of Scotland, a district named Colgarth. A facsimile ofthat map, on a reduced scale, is given in the National Manuscripts of Scot-land, Part III. No. 2. The early geographer indicates in the most general waythe chief Earldoms of Scotland,—Mar, Buchan, Moray, Sutherland, Caithness,and Eoss. Colgarth is represented as mountainous, and a stag is shown to1 Original Letter at Castle Grant. xxviii SIR RORIE MACKENZIE, TUTOR OF K1NTAIL. betoken hunting, with the words Hie maxima venatio, as in the engravingannexed. Mr. Innes, the editor, remarks that Colgarth is without doubt. Coigeach. In reference to the deer and another marking on the map, Hiehabundant lupi, the editor states that the wolves are gone within thememory of man, but Coigeach can still boast of its red deer. The wolves,however, refer to Sutherland and not to Coigeach. Locally, Coigeach formspart of the Earldom of Eoss, and from its position on the map it is almostcertain that Colgarth cannot be identified with Coigeach, and Colgarth pro-bably represents one of the Garths in Perthshire. Coigeach is at presentchiefly in sheep farms, although there is still the considerable forest ofEhidorach. Formerly the family also possessed the neighbouring forest ofFannich, which was sold under the authority of a private Act of Parliament,obtained by the Honourable Mrs. Hay Mackenzie of Cromartie. In the year 1502, a commission was granted by King James the Four
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