WOLF, 
" Some English authors,'* says he, "who 
treat of British Zoology, have reproached me 
for maintaining, that Wolves still exist in 
the northern parts of their island. I never 
did affirm this as a fa6t; but only said — I 
vvas assured, that W olves stiil existed in Scot- 
land.'* Lord Morton, then President of the 
Royal Society, a Scotsman worthy of the 
greatest credit and respe6l, and proprietor of 
large territories in that country, assured me of 
this fadl in the year 1756. To his testimony 
I still adhere, because it is positive; and be- 
cause the assertion of those who deny the fa6t, 
amounts to a negative evidence only.'* 
Pennant quotes BufFon's origiiial assertion 
- the English pretend to have cleared their 
island of Wolves ; I am assured, however, 
that they still exist in Scotland :" and, observ- 
ing that he must have been greatly misinform- 
ed, " I have," says Pennant, " travelled 
into almost every corner of that country j but 
could not learn that there remained even ihe 
memory of those animals among the okbst 
people." In Irel^ind^, it seems, they continued 
longer; for one was killed there in 1710; 
when 
