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in the Meggat district about the year 1578, adds that the 

 last of that region, after wandering solitary among the 

 mountains for about thirty years, and known to all the 

 inhabitants, was killed on the neighbouring hills of Annan- 

 dale in 1763 ("Mammalia Scotica," 1808). It must indeed 

 have been rare if it existed at all in that district in the 

 beginning of the eighteenth century, for in Dr Pennecuik's 

 "History of Tweeddale," published in 1715, it is thus 

 referred to, — " Upon the head of this water [Meggat] is to 

 be seen, first, a house deservedly called Dead-for-cald ; then 

 Wintrop-burn ; Meggit-knows ; the Crammel, which seems 

 to have been an old hunting-house of our kings, for I saw 

 in the hall thereof a very large Harfs-horn upon the wall 

 for a clock-pinn ; the like whereof I observed in several 

 other country men's houses in that desart and solitary 

 place, where both Hart and Hynd, Dae and Bae have been 

 so frequent and numerous of old, as witness the name of the 

 hill, Hartfield" (ed. 1815, p. 248). Hartlaw, Hartside, and 

 Hindsidehill are Lammermoor place-names (Muirhead's 

 " Birds of Berwickshire," Introd., p. xv). 



Remains of the Eed Deer have been unearthed in almost 

 every part of the district, thus proving what history and 

 tradition vaguely indicate, namely, that the animal once roamed 

 over the entire area. The following list of localities is taken 

 from Woodward and Sherborn's " Catalogue of British Eossil 

 Vertebrata " — Edinburgh, Elphinstone, Cockenzie, Drem, 

 Athelstaneford, Seacliffe, Coldingham, Westruther, Kimmerg- 

 hame, Whitrig Bog, Selkirk, Maxton, Linton, Uphall, Dun das 

 Castle, Stirling, etc. Little more than a year ago I was shown 

 several leg-bones, which had just been found on the Pentlands, 

 a locality whence many examples of Eed Deer remains have 

 been procured — specimens from near Bavelaw, for instance, 



also came under my notice not long ago. 



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