168 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
Towards the end of the sixteenth and beginning of 
the seventeenth centuries large tracts of forests in the 
Highlands were purposely cut down or burned, as 
the only means of expelling the Wolves which there 
abounded. 
“These hills and glens and wooded wilds can tell 
How many wolves and boars and deer then fell.” : 
CamMpPBELL’s Grampians Desolate, p. 102. 
‘On the south side of Beann Nevis, a large pine 
forest, which extended from the western braes of 
Lochaber to the Black Water and the mosses of 
Rannach, was burned to expel the Wolves. In the 
neighbourhood of Loch Sloi, a tract of woods nearly 
twenty miles in extent was consumed for the same 
purpose. ’”* 
John Taylor, the Water Poet, who made his 
‘“ Pennyles Pilgrimage ” into Scotland in 1618, saw 
Wolves in Braemar. He writes: ‘‘ My good Lord of 
Mar having put me into shape, I rode with him from 
his house, where I saw the ruins of an old castle, 
called the castle of Kindroghit. It was built by 
King Malcolm Canmore (for a hunting-house), who 
resigned in Scotland when Edward the Confessor, 
Harold, and Norman William reigned in England. 
T speak of it because it was the last house that I saw 
in those parts; for I was the space of twelve days 
after before I saw either house, cornfield, or habita- 
tion of any creature, but deer, wild horses, Wolves, 
* Notes to Sobieski Stuart’s “Last Deer of Beann Doran.” See his 
“Poems” pubiished in 1822 under the assumed name of James Hay 
Allan. 
