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parish and shire of Dumfries, and ‘‘ Wolfstan,” im 
the parish of Pencaitland, East Lothian.* 
Craigmaddie, ‘“ the rock of the Wolf,” in the parish 
of Baldernock, and Stronachon, “the ridge of the 
dog,” in the parish of Drymen, point by their name 
to localities in Stirlingshire which were formerly the 
haunts of the Wolf. 
Mr. Hardy states (/. c.) that on the farm of Gods- 
croft a cairn, now removed, was called “ Wolf-camp.” 
It may have been a Wolf's den, or perhaps an ancient 
“meet ” of the Wolf-hunters who were summoned by 
the sheriff in the days of the early Kings James. 
He adds that in 1769 there was a farm called. 
“ Burnbrae” and ‘ Wolfland” in the parish of 
Nenthorn belonging to Kerr of Fowberry. The 
name seems to imply that it had been held in former 
times by the tenure of hunting the Wolf; Jands thus 
granted being called ‘‘ Wolf-hunt lands,” as already 
remarked under the head of the Wolf in England. 
In 1756 Button was assured by Lord Morton, then 
President of the Royal Society, “a Scotsman worthy 
of the greatest credit and respect, and proprietor of 
large territories in that country,” that Wolves still 
existed in Scotland at that date. 
William Smellie, the translator and editor of 
Buffon’s ‘ Natural History,” thus comments on this 
statement (vol. iv. p. 210, note, 3rd edit., 1791): “We 
are fully disposed to give due weight te an authority 
so respectable and so worthy of credit; but we are 
convinced that the Count has misapprehended his. 
* Hardy, “ Proc. Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club,” 1861, p. 289. 
