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the animal had become extinct. His words are : Lupi olim 
frequentes erant , quidam etiam de Ccdedoniis ursis loquuntur. 
Sed horum genus deletum et ex insula extermination est * * * § 
Pennant states that the wolf became extinct in Scotland in 
1680, when the last of the race was slain by Sir Ewen Cameron 
of Lochiel. He adds that he had travelled “ into almost every 
corner of that country, but could not learn that there remained 
even the memory of these animals among the oldest people.” f 
Surtees gives the date of the death of the last wolf in Scotland 
as 16824 
From more recent investigation, however, it is clear that Sir 
Kobert Sibbald and Pennant were both mistaken, for not only 
were wolves slain in Scotland subsequently to 1680, but numerous 
traditions concerning these animals survived in the country to 
at least as recent a date as 1848. 
Tradition. — In a Gaelic forest lay “ of a remote period, the 
date and author of which are uncertain,” the wolf is thus referred 
to as inhabiting the ancient pine woods of Scotland : — 
“ Chi mi Sgorr-eild’ air bruaich a’ ghlinn’ 
An goir a’ chuthag gu-binn an dos. 
’Us gdrm mheall-aild’ nam mile guihhas 
Nan lub, nan earba, ’s nan Ion.” 
“ I see the ridge of hinds, the steep of the sloping glen, 
The wood of cuckoos at its foot, 
The blue height of a thousand pines, 
Of zvolves, and roes, and elks.”§ 
Other Gaelic names for the wolf are madadh alluidh, com- 
monly used; faol chu , and alia mhadadh , all of which are 
composed of an epithet and a word which now means dog.|| It 
is also called faol and mac tire , “ earth’s son.” H 
In Scrope’s “ Days of Deer-stalking ” (p. 109) is related an 
adventure with a wolf that happened to Macpherson of Brae- 
kaely, when he had the charge of the Forest of Benalder, and 
was furnished to the author by Cluny Macpherson, chief of 
Clan-chattan. 
* “Scotia Illustrata, sive Prodromus Historic Naturalis,” folio, 1684, 
pars ii. p. 9. 
t “British Zoology,” Yol. i.p. 88, and “Tour in Scotland,” Yol. i. p. 
206. See also Macaulay’s “ History of England,” Vol. ii. p. 320. 
X “ History and Antiquities of the County of Durham,” Yol. ii. p. 172. 
§ From “ The Aged Bard’s Wish,” given in Stuart’s “ Lays of the Deer 
Forest,” ii. p. 9. 
|| Pinkerton’s “ Enquiry into the Early History of Scotland,” Yol. ii. 
p. 85. 
51 Campbell’s “Tales of the West Highlands,” Vol. i. p. 274. 
