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agreement between the Avenels and the Monks of Melrose, 

 by which the Litter were expressly precluded from hunting 

 Hart and Hind, Boar and Eoe, in the forest of Eskdale (C. 

 Innes's " Sketches of Early Scotch History," p. 103, and the 

 Duke of Argyll's "Scotland as It Was and as It Is," 2nd ed., 

 p. 52). Eemains of the Roe seem to be less frequently 

 brought to light than those of the Eed Deer. The discovery 

 by Dr Hardy of a portion of an antler in the vicinity of an 

 ancient British camp at Oldcanibus, in the extreme east of 

 Berwickshire, is a fact of much interest (" Proc." Berw. Nat. 

 Club, ix., p. 242). As already mentioned (p. 89), the 

 animal is alluded to by Dr Pennecuik (1715) as a former 

 inhabitant of Tweeddale, and in Chambers's " History of 

 Peeblesshire" (1864, p. 525), we read, "Of the animals 

 which have become extinct in Peeblesshire, tradition pre- 

 serves the memory only of the Eed Deer and the Eoe. The 

 latter seems to have survived after the extinction of the 

 former. It is probably, however, at least two hundred years 

 since the last really wild deer was killed in the county." 

 The nearest parish in which I find it mentioned in the " Old 

 Statistical Account" is Callander; "Eoes," says the writer, 

 " breed in our woods " (vol. xi., p. 598).^ 



Prior to the middle of the last century, comparatively few 

 artificially-planted woods of any extent existed in the district. 

 About that time, however, the planting of trees became very 

 popular among the proprietors of the land, and in the course 

 of the next twenty or thirty years thousands of acres in all 

 parts of the country were utilised in this way. By the 

 beginning of the present century many of these plantations 

 were of sufficient growth to afford excellent shelter to such 

 an animal as the Roe, which was now, so to speak, being 

 invited to return to its former haunts. The return movement 

 1 See also Graham's Sketches of Perthshire. 



