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home in Britain was among the remote hills of Caith- 
ness. 
To the naturalist it is a somewhat sad reflection, 
that animals of the forest and the chase, now only 
known by name as the inhabitants of other countries, 
were once as familiar to our ancestors as they are at 
present to the people of the remote kingdoms which 
they frequent. Man has been warring against these 
forest denizens, and as tract after tract which they 
once claimed as their own has been brought under 
the ploughshare, they have been driven farther and 
farther back, until the last of them has been blotted 
out from our fauna. 
Lake and moor have become fields of yellow grain ; 
forest has been changed into morass, morass into 
moor, and moor again into forest, until finding 
nowhere to rest in peace, the bear, the beaver, the 
reindeer, the wild boar, and the wolf, have become 
in Britain amongst the things that were. 
