254 TRANSACTIONS, NATURAL HISTORY SOCIETY OF GLASGOW. 



Beech, E. of four, 12 ft. 9 ins. at 5 ft. next bridge. 



Beech, N. of four, 13 ft 10 ins. at 5 ft. next river; bole, 35 ft. ; 

 height, 89 ft. 



Beech, W. of four, 14 ft. QJ- in. at 5 ft. N. 



Beech, S. of four (near stone bridge), 12 ft. 6i ins. at 5 ft. 

 next bridge ; bole, 32 ft. 



Beech, to S. of suspension bridge, 14ft. 9 ins. at 5 ft. ; bole, 

 40 ft. 



Beech, one of a 23air on haugh between house and river. 

 12 ft. 2 inches at.5 ft. ; bole, 30 ft. 



Beech, the other of pair, 11 ft. 7-J- ins. at 5 ft. ; bole, 18 ft.; 

 height, 88 ft. 



Buchanan Castle, 24th September, 1900 (Glasgow Autumn 

 Holiday). — Mr. John Renwick reported on this excursion, as 

 follows : — 



" The party went by rail via Balloch to Drymen Station, 

 walking thence to the village of Drymen, fully a mile and a-half 

 distant. The first part of the road, from the station to near the 

 River Endrick, was a turnpike road leading to Glasgow by Easter 

 Ealpatrick, made towards the close of last century. In the 

 Statistical Account of Kilmaronock Parish, written about 1792, 

 it is stated to be 'now nearly completed.' Near Catter House, it 

 joins the military road from Dumbarton to Stirling, which crosses 

 the Endrick ' by an excellent modern bridge,' and passes from the 

 Parish of Kilmaronock, in Dumbartonshire, to that of Drymen, in 

 Stirlingshire. From the townhead of Drymen, a road leads past 

 the Parish Church of Buchanan to Balmaha, and onward, near the 

 shores of Loch Lomond, to Rowardennan. It waiS completed 

 about 1790, after about thirty years' slow work. The policies of 

 Buchanan lie on the sloping ground between this road and the 

 River Endrick, which winds in many a link among the haughs 

 laid down by itself when the land lay at a lower level than now. 

 The writer of the Statistical Account of Buchanan Parish says 

 ' This river, in the winter season, when the loch is full, covers a 



