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vestige of an oak, old or young, is to be seen. 

 Whether any remains of ancient oaks have 

 been brought to light in the course of wood- 

 cutting, quarrying and other recent excavations 

 there, I do not know ; as to this it would be 

 interesting to learn what the experience of the 

 Estate Authorities has been. 



Pennant cites the well-known case of Sir 

 Ewen Cameron of Lochiel's wolf in 1680 as 

 1 the last ' ; but though possibly true for Loch- 

 aber, it was by no means the last in Scotland. 

 In 1818, at the sale by auction of the London 

 Museum there is an entry in the catalogue : 

 ' Wolf a noble animal in a large glass case. 

 The last wolf killed in Scotland by Sir E. 

 Cameron.' 1 



Of traditions of ' last wolves ' there are many; 

 but one or two examples will suffice. In 

 Sutherland, about 1690-1700, old wolves and 

 cubs were said to have been killed in three 

 different places, Assynt, Halladale, and Glen 

 Loth. This last story is well known. A man 

 named Poison, and his two sons, having found 

 a wolfs den in a cairn, the two lads crept in 

 and found a family of cubs which they proceeded 

 to kill, the father of the lads remaining without. 

 To his horror he perceived the furious mother 



1 Harting, Extinct British Animals. 



