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tenderness of feeling, had sought for the loveliest ‘spot in this 
beautiful ‘isle’ for the repose of those babes whose dust it had 
-harshly doomed to exile from the sepulchre of their fathers,” 
An Ash, larger than these, was, till recently, to be seen at 
Drymen Churchyard, Stirlingshire. In the’ New Statistical 
Accownt of the parish, “ written December, 1838, revised March, 
1841,” it is thus recorded :—* At the churchyard gate there is a 
noble Ash, once the bell-tree, which has weathered at least 
200 years. This tree is mentioned in the Agricultural Report of 
Stirlingshire, published in 1812, and it may be interesting to 
compare its measurement at that date and the present. Its girth 
is there stated as 15 feet at 1 foot from the ground, and 13 feet 
8 inches at the middle of the trunk. It now measures 16 feet 
7 inches in circumference at 1 foot from the ground, and 16 feet 
1 inch at the middle of the stem, about 5 feet from the ground.” 
In the Transactions of the Highland and Agricultural Society for 
March, 1864, the tree is stated to be decaying at top—the girth 
(apparently) at 5 feet in 1858 having been 17 feet 1 inch ; height, 
65 feet ; diameter of shade, 70 feet ; age, between 200 and 300 
years. When we saw it in May, 1889, it girthed 17 feet 54 inches 
at 1 foot, and 17 feet 44 inches at 5 feet. It was then very much 
_ decayed, and was blown down on 23rd September, 1892. 
But still larger than the Drymen Ash is one at Logierait, in 
Perthshire, which, even with part of the circumference gone, we 
found in April, 1893, to measure_20 feet at 8 feet from the 
ground. The trunk is broken off at about 15 feet up, and is 
quite hollow at the base. In the Wew Statistical Account, 
November, 1842, the girth is given as 40 feet at 3 feet up, and 
22 feet at 11 feet; the height as 60 feet, and said to have been at 
one time nearly 90 feet. Dr. D. Christison, in the Zransactions 
of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh, Vol. XIX., says: “The 
tree, when complete, could hardly have girthed less than 30 feet 
at 5 feet up, and it must have been one of the largest trees in 
Scotland of which we have any record,” 
The grandest BrEcu tree was one near Dougalston House—T. R. 
Ker, Esq.—with a solid bole girthing 16 feet 11 inches at 4 feet 
from the ground, and 20 feet high. About this height it divides 
into several large branches. One of these is supported by what 
may be described as a natural bracket or tie, about 18 inches in 
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