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ill diameter, and eighteen people could sit on a hexagonal 

 bench round a table in the middle. Another great ash was 

 blown down at Bonhill Churchyard in 1845, The circle 

 round the base was G3 feet; girth at 3 feet, 26 feet <> 

 inches; branch spread, 100 feet; height, 113 feet. 



My own recollection of another ruined ash at Dalswinton, 

 Dumfries, seen in my youth, is that it was the largest stump 

 of a tree I have ever seen in Scotland. Unfortunately 

 no record of its size has been kept, but Mr. W. M. Leny, 

 the proprietor, writing in 1875, says his recollection was 

 that the last measurement was 39 feet. 



But the most satisfactory example is at Logierait, 

 Perthshire, as, although much ruined, enough remains to 

 prove the accuracy of the measurements given in the 

 Statistical Account of Scotland in 1845, when it was 

 still comparatively flourishing. The girth was then 53 ^ 

 feet at the ground, 40 feet at 3 feet, 22 feet at 11 feet: 

 and the height, 60 feet. The upper part had been carried 

 away, the trunk was hollow, but " the profusion of foliage 

 attracted the eye at a distance to its enormous pro- 

 portions." The Eev. ]Mr. Andrew Meldrum, minister of 

 the parish, has supplied me with a drawing, measurements, 

 and description, from which it appears that only half the 

 circumference of the trunk remains, and its height is 

 reduced to 15 feet. The semi-circumference measures 

 29 feet, and its base-line 18 feet, at the ground. At 

 3 feet the diameter is 1 3 feet ; at 6 feet, 9 feet ; and at 

 1 1 feet, 7 feet 6 inches. The tree when complete, there- 

 fore, 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 a reliable record. 



Too late for insertion in the proper place, I have received 

 measurements, taken expressly for me, of the Cctpon Oah, 

 near Jedburgh, one of the very largest oaks in Scotland, — 

 "it covers an area of between 80 and 90 feet diameter. 

 The gnarled stem girths 39 feet near the ground, 23 feet 

 at 4 feet up, the narrowest point, and after giving off a 

 large limb forks at 6 feet up, one limb girthing 10 feet 9 

 inches, and the other 16 feet 4 inches, a little above the 

 fork " (Mr. T. Caverhill.. factor to Lord Lothian). 



