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Taking a general view of the table and of the photo- 

 graphs, it is evident that Ayrshire is not remarkable for 

 venerable ruins, such as in other counties testify, by their 

 vast size, wasted limbs, and hollow stem, to a descent from 

 remote antiquity. There is, indeed, but one veteran of the 



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