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large wave rolled to the southward, and finally flooded the 

 Carse of Gowrie, and all east of the Tay ; and passing eastward 

 through Strathmore and Forfar, again pursued a northerly 

 course. But before following them in this direction, we will 

 first show the slowness of their advance 'north-westward by 

 Dunkeld, and westward. 



It was not till a comparatively late date that they reached 

 into Logierait * and Moulin f parishes, as we find them ahin- 

 dant only in 1841 ; not till the same year that they became 

 established in Blair Athole;| and in Fortingall parish they 

 had only "lately made their appearance in our woods and 

 plantations." § 



In 1827, the Eev. George Gordon of Birnie, Elgin, when 

 returning to Inverness from Edinburgh, " saw a squirrel in the 

 woods north of Dunkeld, from the top of the Highland 

 coach." II In 1836, John Colquhoun, Esq., rented the shoot- 

 ings of Kinnaird, and he tells me that squirrels were then most 

 abundant ; and he adds : " Some ten or fifteen years after, I 

 saw a large table-cover which contained skins of some 200 

 squirrels shot at Taymouth." H My Taymouth correspondent 

 — Mr Dewar — corroborates this. After telling me that the first 

 seen at Breadalbane was in 1828 (vide antea, p. 142), he goes on 

 to say : " They began to kill them down at Taymouth in 

 1848, but more so in 1849. There was a bazaar in Perth 

 about that time, and the Marchioness was there, and had a 

 stall. She had about 500 skins for sale."** In 1852, it was 

 numerous at Dunkeld. ft Now — 1879 — there is not one for 

 a hundred formerly. j| 



On Stobhall about 100 were killed annually, some years ago. 

 They were killed regularly for eighteen years, and sixpence 

 per taU was paid. 



By this time they had reached Glendochart ; as my infor- 

 mant, now living at Luib, assures me that he has " known 



* «'New Stat. Acct.," Perthshire, p. 687. t Op. cit., p. 643. 



X Op. ciL, p. 563. § Op. cit., p. 543. 



II Extract from Mr Gordon's Note Book. 



nr J. C, in lit. ** D. De^va^, in lit. 



ff Morris' "Naturalist," vol. ii., p. 109. 



Xt D. Dewar, in lit. 



