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. I first remarked it on the top of one of these precipices 
named the Swallow Craig. . . . This was likewise the 
spot where, more than forty years ago, my father used to see 
them when they were still numerous. . . . The dark 
caverns, or ‘ coves,’ of which ‘there are several in the range 
of cliffs from this to Fast Castle, had the repute in former 
times of being tenanted by these animals. . . . By their 
occasional depredations in the hen-roost they were known as 
far westward as Dunglass, perhaps finding a retreat in the 
deep and wooded glen. Fifty years ago, they were exceed- 
ingly numerous in the woods above the Pease Bridge.” The 
precipitous sea-banks between Gunsgreen and Fairneyside 
are mentioned as another haunt, and it is further stated that 
below a place named Blaikie, “there are several holes in the 
banks still called the cat-holes, which were the headquarters 
of the wild cats that prevailed there. . . . It is only 
within a recent period that the last of them was killed.” In 
his 1874 article Dr Hardy adduces further evidence of the 
animal being formerly familiar to the country people in the 
Border districts. Alexander Somerville’s encounter with it 
in the Ogle Burn, a deep dark wooded ravine running into 
the Lammermoors in the parish of Innerwick, as related in 
his “ Autobiography of a Working Man,” is quoted at length. 
Other localities particularised are “The Sting,’ on Upper 
Monynut, also in the Lammermoors, where the last “ clecking” 
is said to have been destroyed about sixty years since; Belton 
Wood, where one is supposed to have been seen somewhat 
later; and the Press Woods, on the edge of Coldingham 
Moor. Place-names such as Cat-craig, now quarried away 
for lime, on the coast east from Dunbar; Wulcat Yett, a few 
miles from Jedburgh; Cat-lee Burn, in Southdean, are put 
forward as additional evidence; and in this connection I may 
also mention Wul-cat-brae on the Eye (op. ctt.,1x., p. 15), and 
Cat-slack in Yarrow. In the “Old Statistical Account” 
(xvi. p. 76) the Wild Cat is included among the quadrupeds 
then inhabiting the parish of Castletown in Roxburghshire, a 
record which is not referred to either by Dr Hardy or Mr 
Harvie-Brown. In the tenth volume of the Proceedings of 
the Berwickshire Club (p. 47) it is recorded that at the 
