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probably several which were later than that killed 

 by Sir Ewen Cameron.* The " last" of Strath Glass 

 was killed at Gusachan according to tradition " at no 

 very distant period." The "last" in Glen Urchard on 

 the east side of the valley between Loch Leiter and 

 Sheugly, at a place called ever since Slochd a 

 mhadaidh — i.e., the Wolf's den ; and the last of the 

 Findhorn and also (as there seems every reason 

 to believe) the last of the species in Scotland, at a 

 place between Fi-Giuthas and Pall-a-chrocain, and 

 according to popular chronology no longer ago than 

 the year 1 743. The district in which he was killed 

 was well calculated to have given harbour to the last 

 of a savage race. All the country round his haunt 

 was an extent of wild and desolate moorland hills, 

 beyond which, in the west, there was retreat to the 

 vast wilderness of the Monaidh-laith, an immense 

 tract of desert mountains utterly uninhabited, and 

 unfrequented except by summer herds and herdsmen, 

 but, when the cattle had retired, abundantly re- 

 plenished with deer and other game, to give ample 

 provision to the " wild dogs." The last of their race 

 was killed by MacQueen of Pall-a-chrocain, who died 

 in the year 1797, and was the most celebrated 

 "carnach" of the Findhorn for an unknown period. 

 Of gigantic stature, six feet seven inches in height, 

 he was equally remarkable for his strength, courage, 

 and celebrity as a deer-stalker, and had the best 



* A portrait of this devoted partizan of the house of Stuart was 

 exhibited at the meeting of the British Association at Aberdeen in 

 1859. 



