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stan, says one of the old historians, a retreat was 

 built at Flixton, in that county, to defend passengers 

 from the wolves, that they should not he devoured by 

 them. About the latter end of the tenth century, 

 a tribute was imposed upon the Welsh princes, of 

 three hundred wolves' heads, to be annually deli- 

 vered, till the whole race should be destroyed. 

 After a few years the tribute was remitted, under a 

 declaration, on the part of the princes, that the 

 breed was extinct. The numbers, had, indeed, 

 been greatly diminished; but some of the animals 

 were left ; for, in the reign of Edward the First, 

 they had again increased to such numbers, that a 

 royal mandate was issued to a person of the name 

 of Corbet, to superintend, and assist in, the de- 

 struction of Wolves, in the several counties of 



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Gloucester, Worcester, Hereford, Salop, and Staf- 

 ford. In Derbyshire, we are informed that certain 

 persons held their lands by the duty of hunting, 

 and taking the Wolves which infested that part of 

 the country. The last Wolf that has been heard of 

 in Scotland, was killed about the year 1680; and 

 the date of the extinction of these animals in 

 Ireland is 1710, the latest presentment for killing 

 Wolves having been made in the county of Cork 

 about that year. 



The habitations of all this tribe of animals are 

 burrows, or dens, which they scratch in the ground, 

 or which they find ready formed in the clefts of 

 rocks, or the deep recesses of forests. In these 



they 



