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scene of the exploit in the parish of Moy in the county of 
Inverness, which, although within the bounds of the ancient 
province of Moray, is far beyond the present limits of the forest 
of Tarnaway. 
Sir Thomas gives the very words which MacQueen is said to 
have used in describing to the chief of Macintosh how he killed 
the wolf : “ As I came through the slochlc ( i.e . ravine) by east 
the hill there,” said he, as if talking of some everyday occur- 
rence, “I foregathered wi’ the beast. My long dog there 
turned him. I buckled wi’ him, and dirkit him, and syne 
whuttled his craig ( i.e ., cut his throat), and brought awa’ his 
countenance for fear he might come alive again, for they are 
very precarious creatures.” In reward for his bravery, his chief 
is said to have bestowed on him a gift of the lands of Sean-a- 
chan “ to yield meal for his good greyhound in all time coming.” 
Sir Thomas Lauder has preserved another tradition of the 
extirpation of the wolf in Morayshire, when two old wolves and 
their cubs were killed by one man in a ravine under the Knock 
of Braemory, near the source of the Burn of Newton. 
In the old “ Statistical Account of Scotland,” edited by Sir 
John Sinclair, and published in twenty-one volumes between 
the years 1791 and 1799, a few entries relating to the wolf 
occur, but they are neither numerous nor important. Mr. J. A. 
Harvie Brown, who has lately examined the entire series of 
volumes for another purpose, has obligingly communicated the 
following particulars: “The woods in Blair Athole and Strowan 
in Perthshire once afforded shelter for wolves (Vol. ii. p. 465), 
as did also the district around Cathcart in Benfrewshire (V ol. v. 
p. 347). In Orkney it appears they were unknown (Vol. vii. 
p. 546). The wilds and mountains of Glenorchay and Innishail 
in Argyleshire are noted as being formerly haunted by these 
animals, whence they issued to attack not only the flocks but 
their owners (Vol. viii. p. 343). Towards the west end of the 
parish of Birse in Aberdeenshire there is a place in the Gram- 
pians still known (1793) by the name of the Wolf-holm (Vol. 
ix. p. 108). Ubster, a town in Caithness (from ‘Wolfster,’ 
Danish or Icelandic) appears to have received its name either 
from its being of old a place infested with wolves, or from a 
person of the name of Wolf (Vol. x. p. 32). In Banffshire the 
last wolf is said to have been killed in the parish of Kirkmichael 
about 1644.” (Vol. xii. p. 447). 
Dr. Robert Brown heard a tradition in Caithness-shire that the 
wood on the hills of Yarrow, near Wick, was cut down about 
the year 1 500 by the enraged dwellers in the district on account 
of its harbouring wolves, and that the last wolf in that neigh- 
bourhood was killed between Brabster and Freswick in a hollow 
called Wolfsburn. 
