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burghshire, 44 Wolf-cleugh ” in Eoberton parish on Borthwick 
Water; “Wolf-cleugh” on Kule Water; and 44 Wolfhope ” on 
Catlee-burn, in Southdean parish,* to which may be added 
44 Wolflee ” or 44 Woole,” on Wauchope-burn ; and 44 Wolf- 
keilder ” on the Northumbrian border. There are also 44 Wolf- 
gill land,” in the parish and shire of Dumfries, and 44 Wolfstan,” 
in the parish of Pencaitland, East Lothian.f 
Craigmaddie, 44 the rock of the wolf,” in the parish of Balder- 
nock, and Stronachon, 44 the ridge of the dog,” in the parish of 
Drymen, point by their name to localities in Stirlingshire 
which were formerly the haunts of the wolf. 
Mr. Hardy states (lx.) that on the farm of Grodscroft a cairn, 
now removed, was called 44 Wolf-camp.” It may have been a 
wolf’s den, or perhaps an ancient 44 meet” of the wolf hunters 
who were summoned by the sheriff in the days of the early 
Kings James. 
He adds that in 1769 there was a farm called “Burnbrae” 
and 44 Wolfland ” in the parish of Neuthorn belonging to Kerr 
of Fowberry. The name seems to imply that it had been held 
in former times by the tenure of hunting the wolf, lands thus 
granted being called 44 wolf-hunt lands,” as already remarked 
under the head of the wolf in England. 
In 1756 Buffon was assured by Lord Morton, then President 
of the Eoyal Society, 44 a Scotsman worthy of the greatest 
credit and respect, and proprietor of large territories in that 
country,” that wolves still existed in Scotland at that date. 
William Smellie, the translator and editor of Buffon’s 
44 Natural History,” thus comments on this statement (Vol. iv. 
p. 210, note, 3rd edition, 1791), 44 We are fully disposed to 
give due weight to an authority so respectable and so worthy 
of credit ; but we are convinced that the Count has misappre- 
hended his lordship, for it is universally known to the inhabi- 
tants of Scotland that not a single wolf has been seen in any 
part of that country for more than a century past.” 
In asserting that this is 44 universally known to the inhabi- 
tants of Scotland ” the translator and editor has erred in the 
other extreme, for, as has been already shown, wolves were 
killed in Sutherland within fifty years of the date of his 
remark and within thirteen years of the date mentioned by 
Buffon. 
It now remains for us to trace the history of the wolf in 
Ireland. 
* Chalmers’ “Caledonia,” Yol. ii. p. 132. 
t Hardy, “ Proc. Berwickshire Naturalists’ Club,” 1861, p. 289. 
(To be continued.') 
