178 EXTINCT BRITISH ANIMALS. 
probably several which were later than that killed 
by Sir Ewen Cameron.* The “last” of Strath Glass 
was killed at Gusachan according to tradition “at no 
very distant period.” The “last” in Glen Urchard on 
the east side of the valley between Loch Leiter and 
Sheugly, at a place called ever since Slochd a 
mhadatdh—i.e., the Wolf's den; and the last of the 
Findhorn and also (as there seems every reason 
to believe) the last of the species in Scotland, at a 
place between Fi-Giuthas and Pall-a-chrocain, and 
according to popular chronology no longer ago than 
the year 1743. The district in which he was killed 
was well calculated to have given harbour to the last 
of a savage race. All the country round his haunt 
was an extent of wild and desolate moorland hills, 
beyond which, in the west, there was retreat to the 
vast wilderness of the Monaidh-laith, an immense 
tract of desert mountains utterly uninhabited, and 
unfrequented except by summer herds and herdsmen, 
but, when the cattle had retired, abundantly re- 
plenished with deer and other game, to give ample 
provision to the “wild dogs.” The last of their race 
was killed by MacQueen of Pall-a-chrocain, who died 
in the year 1797, and was the most celebrated 
‘‘earnach’” of the Findhorn for an unknown period. 
Of gigantic stature, six feet seven inches in height, 
he was equally remarkable for his strength, courage, 
and celebrity as a deer-stalker, and had the best 
* A portrait of this devoted partizan of the house of Stuart was 
exhibited at the meeting of the British Association at Aberdeen in 
1859, 
