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1799, a few entries relating to the Wolf occur, 
but they are neither numerous nor important. 
Mr J. A. Harvie Brown, who has lately examined 
the entire series of volumes for another purpose, has 
obligingly communicated the following particulars : 
““The woods in Blair Athole and Strowan in Perth- 
shire once afforded shelter for Wolves (vol. ii. p. 486), 
as did also the district around Cathcart in Renfrew- 
shire (vol. v. p. 347). In Orkney it appears they 
were unknown (vol. vil. p. 546). The wilds and 
mountains of Glenorchay and Innishail in Argyll- 
shire are noted as being formerly haunted by these 
animals, whence they issued to attack not only the 
flock but their owners (vol. vi. p. 343). Towards 
the west end of the parish of Birse in Aberdeen- 
shire there is a place in the Grampians still known 
(1793) by the name of the Wolf-holm (vol. ix. p. 108). 
Ubster, a town in Caithness (from ‘Wolfster,’ 
Danish or Icelandic), appears to have received its 
name either from its being of old a place infested 
with Wolves, or from a person of the name of Wolf 
(vol. x. p. 32). In Banfishire the last Wolf is said 
to have been killed in the parish of Kirkmichael 
about 1644” (vol. xii. p. 447). 
Dr. Robert Brown heard a tradition in Caithness- 
shire that the wood on the hills of Yarrow, near 
Wick, was cut down about the year 1500 by the 
enraged dwellers in the district on account of its 
harbouring Wolves, and that the last Wolf in that 
* neighbourhood was killed between Brabster and 
Freswick in a hollow called Wolfsburn. 
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