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CHAPTER XXIV -
1836

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 July 2011

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Overwrought with toil and anxiety, Mr. Buxton was delighted to escape to Scotland in the beginning of August. While he was on this tour, the Marquis of Breadalbane, with true Highland hospitality, placed one of his moors at his disposal, and, accordingly, he remained for some time at Dalmally, and afterwards at Luib, enjoying the sport afforded by the surrounding country.

Wishing to express his sense of this act of kindness, he applied to his relative, Mr. Llewellyn Lloyd, who was residing in Sweden, engaging him to use his best exertions to procure as many live capercailzie as possible, as a present to Lord Breadalbane.

The capercailzie, or cock of the woods, as it is well known, were in former times denizens of the Scotch forests; but the last specimen was shot about a hundred years ago in Perthshire. They are large birds, a full-grown cock weighing about twelve pounds; they live, for the most part, in larch forests, and are found throughout SAveden and Norway. Mr. Lloyd sent advertisements for live capercailzie, to the villages up the country these advertisements, according to the Swedish custom, were read from the pulpits after divine service, and in the course of the winter, thirteen cocks and sixteen hens were procured, which were placed under the care of Larry Banvill, (Mr. Buxton's faithful Irish gamekeeper,) who had heen sent to Sweden for the purpose, and by whom they were successfully conveyed to Taymouth Castle.

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Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Baronet
With Selections from his Correspondence
, pp. 394 - 414
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1848

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  • 1836
  • Thomas Fowell Buxton
  • Edited by Charles Buxton
  • Book: Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Baronet
  • Online publication: 05 July 2011
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511751042.025
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  • Thomas Fowell Buxton
  • Edited by Charles Buxton
  • Book: Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Baronet
  • Online publication: 05 July 2011
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511751042.025
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  • 1836
  • Thomas Fowell Buxton
  • Edited by Charles Buxton
  • Book: Memoirs of Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, Baronet
  • Online publication: 05 July 2011
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511751042.025
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