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deerhound is to be found in greater numbers now 

 than previously, it is only because more attention is 

 paid to his breeding, and because the many strains 

 that a hundred years and more ago were in the out 

 of the way places of the Highlands have, by better 

 communication, been brought within the radius of 

 canine admirers. Scrope, in his "Deer Stalking," 

 published in 1838, has naturally much to write about 

 the deerhound. He it is recommends the fox- 

 hound and greyhound cross, and says that the 

 celebrated sportsman Glengarry crossed occasionally 

 with bloodhounds, still Macneill of Colonsay, who 

 wrote the article in " Days of Deerstalking," that 

 deals mostly with those hounds, confesses that there 

 were still pure deerhounds to be found w^hen he 

 states them to be very scarce at the time he wrote. 

 Maybe they were scarce, but not sufficiently so as 

 to induce people to attempt to reproduce them by 

 such an unhallowed alliance, and perhaps, as stated 

 above, they were not quite so scarce as he imagined. 

 In addition to the hounds kept by the farmers and 

 shepherds. Lord Seaforth had a large kennel, and 

 the strains of the MacDonnels of Invergary House, 

 of Cluny Macpherson, of Colonel Mitchell Strath- 

 maspie, of the Lochiels in Lochaber, one of whose 

 hounds was said to have killed the last wolf in 

 Scotland ; of the Dukes of Gordon, of the 



