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and in sawing it through, a stone was discovered, 6 feet from the 

 ground, above a yard in the body of the tree, through which the 

 saw cut ; the stone was about G inches in diameter, and completely 

 shut in, but round which there was not the least symptom of decay. 

 The rings in its butt were carefully reckoned, and amounted to 

 above four hundred in number, a convincing proof that this tree 

 was in an improving state for upwards of 400 years; and as the 

 ends of some of its branches were decayed, and had dropped off, 

 it is presumed it had stood a great number of years after it had 

 attained maturity. 



Professor Walker, of Edinburgh, in his catalogue of remarkable 

 Scottish trees, mentions several very fine oaks in Scotland. An 

 oak at Lockwood, in Annandale, measured at 6 feet above the 

 root, was 15 feet girth, among a number of others which nearly 

 approached the same size, standing not less than 900 feet above 

 the level of the sea. An oak at Blarquosh, in the parish of 

 Strathblane, in Stirlingshire, the spread of the branches of which 

 was 90 feet in diameter, measured 15 feet in girth at 4 feet from 

 the ground. An oak in the Marquis of Tweeddale's grounds at 

 Yester, in Haddingtonshire, at 1 foot from the ground, measures 

 about 15 feet 5 inches; and at 6 feet, it is about 14 feet. The 

 tree called the King of the wood, on the estate of Ferniehirst, near 

 Jedburgh, is a beautiful, tall, straight oak of 8 feet in height. The 

 girth of it is 18 feet above the roots, and at 15 feet it is 11 feet 

 6 inches in circumference, and it goes on tapering gradually for 

 nearly three-fourths of its height. And the Capon tree, which 

 grows near it, and which is much more picturesque in form, 

 measures 21 feet above the roots. It speedily divides itself into 

 two branches, which measure respectively 11 feet 6 inches and 

 14 feet. It is upwards of 70 feet high, and covers an area of 

 92 feet in diameter. These two trees are considered as remnants 

 of the great forest of Jedwood. An oak at Barjarg, in Mthsdale, 

 measured above the roots 1 7 feet ; at the height of 1 6 feet, it 

 girthed 11 feet 11 inches; at 32 feet high, it measured 11 feet 

 9 inches ; and at the height of 46 feet, it was 6 feet 8 inches 

 round. An oak upon Inch Marian, in Loch Lomond, which stands 

 near the middle of the island, measured in 1784, 18 feet 1 inch. 

 This tree is remarkable for its fine expanded head. The measure- 

 ment of the famous Wallace oak, in the Torwood in Stirlingshire, 

 taken in 1771, was 22 feet. There is another Wallace oak at 

 Elderslee, near the place where Wallace was born. It is a very 

 noble tree, 21 feet in circumference at the gromid, and 13 feet 

 2 inches at 5 feet from the ground. It is 67 feet high, and its 

 branches extend 45 feet east, 36 west, 30 south, and 25 north. 



