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1799, a lew entries relating to the Wolf occur, 

 but they are neither numerous nor important. 

 Mr J. A. Harvie Brown, who has lately examined 

 the entire series of volumes for another purpose, has 

 obligingly communicated the following particulars : 

 " The woods in Blair Athole and Strowan in Perth- 

 shire once afforded shelter for Wolves (vol. ii. p. 486), 

 as did also the district around Cathcart in Renfrew- 

 shire (vol. v. p. 347). In Orkney it appears they 

 were unknown (vol. vii. p. 546). The wilds and 

 mountains of Glenorchay and Innishail in Argyll- 

 shire are noted as being formerly haunted by these 

 animals, whence they issued to attack not only the 

 iiock but their owners (vol. viii. p. 343). Towards 

 the west end of the parish of Birse in Aberdeen - 

 shire there is a place in the Grampians still known 

 ( 1 793) by the name of the Wolf-holm (vol. ix. p. 1 08). 

 Ubster, a town in Caithness (from 'Wolfster,' 

 Danish or Icelandic), appears to have received its 

 name either from its being of old a place infested 

 with Wolves, or from a person of the name of Wolf 

 (vol. x. p. 32). In Banffshire the last Wolf is said 

 to have been killed in the parish of Kirkmichael 

 about 1644" (vol. xii. p. 447). 



Dr. Robert Brown heard a tradition in Caithness- 

 shire that the wood on the hills of Yarrow, near 

 Wick, was cut down about the year 1500 by the 

 enraged dwellers in the district on account of its 

 harbouring Wolves, and that the last Wolf in that 

 neighbourhood was killed between Brabster and 

 Freswick in a hollow called Wolfsburn. 



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